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"National Standard 1 strives for maximum sustainable yield"
This has always annoyed me. I hate that term. We should be MUCH more conservative than that. This implies we should squeeze every last drop that we can from the resource, but since we really don't know the depth of the resource how do we know when too much is too much?...Not until it is too late! I would like to see a more sensible and conservative approach, one that insures that the heath of the fishery, not exploits it for maximum yield (ie profit).
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