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The more I read, the more I wonder if we can win this fight.
I know we've gone over this before, but what's the point in protecting and managing gamefish if we wipe out their primary forage.
The herring, mackerel and bunker stocks support the gamefish. Tuna, billfish, blues, bass, and on and on up and down the coast and all over the world.
Anyone check out the "blue planet" special on Discovery last week? These forage species are under amazing pressure. Gamefish, sharks, seals, dolphins, whales and birds rely on them for life.
You would not want to be reincarnated as a herring.
And harvesting fish to eat is one thing... fertilizer and chicken feed don't seem to be a good trade off for stripping the ocean of one of its basic food sources.
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