05-08-2009, 10:24 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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The catches each year have grown on records from the past until, as Nelson said yesterday, the peak concentration may have passed.
"There are indications that numbers are declining slightly," he said. "We won't see higher abundances."
There are "limits" to what the ecosystem can support, he noted.
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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