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Originally Posted by macojoe
By DOUG FRASER
NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center spokesperson Teri Frady said her agency hasn't received any specific request yet to monitor river herring catches in the sea herring fishery but that all unintended catch is reported on their sampling trips with herring fishermen.
Those samples revealed that less than 1 percent of the sea herring catch included river herring, said Michael Armstrong, a scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. But with 181 million pounds of herring caught in 2004, that means about 1.8 million pounds of that catch could have been river herring.
(Published: January 12, 2006)
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The problem with that statement is that they really aren't monitoring that fishery. They have only 2-3% of those vessels staffed with NMFS observers. That is not a representative sample of what is being taken in the fishery.
It is my belief that the river herring are being scooped up with the sea herring. The sea herring fishery has grown dramatically in the last decade and a half.