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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
HERE HERE! This is no exaggeration. You forgot lobsters in southern New England and the loss of scallops and shellfish, even the herring, mullet, and sandeels ...the list is long. This has really happened and it has been under the current management that this has occurred. I can not support them, it is time for a total change of policy, one that is not in bed with commercial interests.
Marine fisheries managers have some difficult decisions to make because of their past failures. Yes, failures. One just needs to look at the codfish population over time to see how well their management philosophy has been. They need to stop indiscriminatory fishing methods and not have a by-kill and stop blaming other agencies. They are all in bed together. But they can't, they are addicted to these crude cheap methods and for the last few decades think quotas are the cure-all to their woes. Well, it isn't.
Fishery managers need to go. There is too much history to fix, we need new blood, better ideas.
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Cod? You think that someoneelse could do a better job with cod? I'm not fan of the way the NEFMC has managed cod in the past, but when you compare it to everyone else, they look really good. Look at Canada, essentially the same population of of fish. They stopped
ALL commercial fishing for cod years ago, and the stock still hasn't rebounded.
But this thread is/was about fluke, and there are more fluke in the coean today than there have been since they started keeping records. That sounds like pretty good mangement to me. Could we do better? Of course we can! But lets not get blinded by our success.