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Any article published in a periodical which is written by and for the benefit of commercial fishermen could hardly be considered biased and a prudent person would have to assume those figures arrived at by using "VPA's" are inflated. Commercial fishermen have never let science/truth get in the way of thier slanted view on stock asessments. One has to pay attention to the young of the year surveys and many many other factors. If the stock assessment was 10 % higher in 2005 that figure would probably coincide with a higher young of the year survey five to eight years ago. VPA's without reading into VPA's is probably like looking at the same girl today that you looked at yesterday and thinking that she is different. When the only difference is that she is wearing a different dress. Nothing else has changed. It reminds me of the term voodoo economics. This sounds and reads like voodoo fisheries science and not reality.