Personally - I agree that SB should be protected.
I don't want to take food off anyone's table but it seems to me that the way the fishery is managed is not achieving the objective. One very interesting proposal was detailed in a report on NPR last week -
Link to NPR Story
Basically these marine scientists advocate managing the fisheries as a system - taking into account the interaction of the of the components of the ecosystem. So rather than having separate managers determining quotas for their species in a vacuum - using computer modeling / predictive technology - the interplay of various activities can be predicted. e.g. If the menhaden catch goes up - the effect on the SB population would be modeled by the program. On the surface, it seems to make sense..... It'll be interesting to see if this method is adopted.
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