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MAKAI · 11-08-2013, 01:24 PM

Depends whose sheets the scientists are in between. Unfortunately government agencies just don't fill me with confidence.
There's no way anyone knows the status of the fisheries. Way too many variables. ( ie cod . fair amount of science behind that one )
So excuse me if I prefer to err on the side of caution.
I did talk to a couple of fisheries ( at a meeting ) scientist regarding the Chesapeake watershed. They told me that it now takes 3 times the spawning biomass to produce the same YOY as it did 20 yrs ago. That's pretty telling science to me.
It's obvious science is important, but I don't find it the be all that ends all.

Just ask the rocket scientists at JPL after they crashed or lost contact with 3 out of 4 multi billion dollar probes to Mars. .... Oops
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MAKAI Too old to give a.... iTrader: (0) Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,505	Depends whose sheets the scientists are in between. Unfortunately government agencies just don't fill me with confidence. There's no way anyone knows the status of the fisheries. Way too many variables. ( ie cod . fair amount of science behind that one ) So excuse me if I prefer to err on the side of caution. I did talk to a couple of fisheries ( at a meeting ) scientist regarding the Chesapeake watershed. They told me that it now takes 3 times the spawning biomass to produce the same YOY as it did 20 yrs ago. That's pretty telling science to me. It's obvious science is important, but I don't find it the be all that ends all. Just ask the rocket scientists at JPL after they crashed or lost contact with 3 out of 4 multi billion dollar probes to Mars. .... Oops Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device Last edited by MAKAI; 11-08-2013 at 01:39 PM..