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Originally Posted by zimmy
Even if he is right about "overfishing", the influence of the commercial interests on the standards for overfishing, combined with insufficient abilities of managers to effectively evaluate populations means this announcement us worth its weight in fish doo doo.
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The commercial interest have zero influence over the standards for overfishing, the standards are set by the Science and Statistics committee (SSC), which is composed entirely of NOAA scientists. As far as populations estimates go, all I will say is that they are also done by the scientists and every time one has been reviewed it turns out that they have grossly underestimated the population. Look at pollack and monkfish for an examples.