That it makes you want to scream! A headline on the homepage of ch 10 says that the decline in the herring population is linked to the increase in the population of Haddock! Seeing that haddock feed heavily on herring eggs it must be the reason for the decline in herring numbers! This is grasping at straws to not lay the blame where it belongs, at the feet of the mid-water pair trawlers who are wiping out everything! I guess that thousands of haddock have been swimming up the runs unbeknownst to us and gobbeling up all the alewives too. How dumb of us not to realize that the problem is not manmade but the fault of somthing that's been going on for millions of years.

Not that I agree with the scientist but the article is on Atlantic herring which do spawn in saltwater unlike the river herring that spawn in the fresh water.

by that logic fishing for haddock exclusively would be
the answer to more herring ......

There go the Haddock!

This kind of biased logic is really idiotic.
That would be like petitioning to close the beer brewers and wineries because of an increase in drunk driving fatalities.

Let's lay blame where it is due!
The reason for the herring decline may be linked to haddock predation of their eggs, but that ONLY because there are fewer herring laying eggs to begin with!

AND.....why are there fewer herring laying eggs???
Surely it can't be the mid-water trawlers, and surely they don't really have any impact in herring numbers? Yeah, right, and Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster live in my back yard and stop by for beer and pizza every Friday night!

Maybe if the so-called reporter would dig a little deeper into the cause and effect aspect, we might get a real answer. Unfortunately the reporting is usually biased by whatever lobbying agency that controls the herring trawler interest.
You know, the spin doctors that make the numbers look and sound real purdy for the public all the while they are lying to our faces!

As I say to my friends and family: "All those that beleive this BS, please stand on your head!"

This is giving me a haddock.

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