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Originally Posted by MakoMike
The idea is to protest against some of the excesses of the revised MSA. Such as the mandate to stop "overfishing" by severely restricting catches even when everyone knows that the catches are not what is responsible for the "overfishing." Remember any shortfall in biological mass from the fishery management plan is by definition "overfishing."
Also to stop nonsense like the overuse of the "precautionary principal" like we have seen with the dogfish explosion.
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I thougt maybe I should be more specific about my previous post.
I do not necessarily disagree with MSA that if there is a shortfall in biomass, then there is overfishing. Even if other factors are reducing the biomass, the catch level needs to be reduced to be proportionate to the amount of biomass.
In simpler terms... the amount of flounder in a spot is reduced from 10 tons to 1 ton for whatever reason. That year only 1 ton was due to fishing. The next seasons catch has to be reduced no matter what is most responsible for the reduction in biomass.
Also, the precautionary principal could have prevented the fact that for most of my young childhood there wasn't a striped bass to be found where we vacationed on the Chesapeake Bay.