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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
My question is, why are the results not public? Why are they hiding them. Did the public not pay for them? What is the big secret? It appears that this is buisness as usual and they need time to construct a story to explain them. IMO they should be embarressed. Here you have a numbers of fishery management groups that have been managing and watching over the species for decades and under this management, they are becomeing endangered. Does anyone else see something wrong with this? How about a pattern.....TO me, it seems to be going the same way as the Codfish, herring and the striped bass in the 80's.
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Results of what? The minutes os the first USF&WS workshop on the eel are available on the USF&WS website. If it's the ASMFC stock assessment that you are talking about, it's simply because it hasn't been presented to the ASMFC's American Eel Management board yet. They ASMFC never releases a stock assessment to the public before it is presented to the appropriate management board. The next board meeting is in Feb. and the stock assessment and the related peer review should become available immediately afterward. With all of the research I have done for the articles I have never had the sense that anyone is trying to hide anything, in fact the staff of the ASMFC and the USF&WS have been very helpful.