|
In fact it is exactly why we are trouble now. It is the gambling approach to fishery management. Preserve some level of spawners and hope for a banner year. And it worked. They got their banner year in 2011, and that means more of the same.
The better way is to ensure a much larger spawning stock so that even mediocre years contribute meaningful fish to the population. Twice as many spawners mean twice as many offspring and double a YOY result, which goes a long way towards turning a bad year into an average year. Unfortunately, those spawners are worth money dead. So we manage with the goal to kill most of them and hope for the weather to save us by generating a banner year once every generation. Brilliant.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|