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Originally Posted by Islander77
Jack you are correct not all are nerds... and if your that united tell them to get a real net please so their test instruments are real... And yes sector will change things dramatically WE HOPE if they can do better math that is lol.... the biggest draw back to sector so far seems to be leaning towards vessel size and not landing history to determine it from what I have been hearing but here is hoping to a brighter future...
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Nets aren't a problem. If you've been out fishing for haddock on GB, you know it's common for ~10 boats to be fishing right in the same area, and one boat hits the 10,000lb school while the rest get nada. That's just the way it goes sometimes. There's so many different versions of that story (research vessel was towing with no doors, net was full of holes that weren't mended, etc etc) out there.
The movement now needs to go towards cooperative research- using commercial fishing vessels to obtain catch data (in addition to survey and observer data). That, along with the development of new trawls (or gillnets, or dredges, etc) that reduce bycatch are going to be the future of the northeast fisheries.
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