I second that! In one of the links there was a number that the purse seiners are allowed 1% by-catch. Over all it is something like 180,000 tons.
These herring have been carried out of the streams for food, fertilizer and any other reason imaginable since before this country was settled by white man. The waters are cleaner than they have been since the industrial revoulution and today we can't even use a couple for bait.
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