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Originally Posted by BasicPatrick
Everyone knows there has always been a suspicion that River Herring are being caught up in the Atlantic (Sea Herring) Midwater Trawl Fleet. Recently, Matt Cieri, a scientist from the Maine Department of Marine Resources presented a study suggesting that at-sea, small-mesh fisheries could be taking as many as 2.5 million pounds of river herring annually!
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So there is someone in science thinking this. And gee, that could explain the phantom offshore mortality rates...
Wish I could have made last night but I was at something else to go to....