PROJO Editorial on the state of codfish

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Hopefully this very meager recovery won't bring regulators to the opinion that they should increase quotas to utilize MSY.

I meant to address that notion earlier. Do you know what MSY really means? It is the amount of biomass that will allow fishermen (both recreational and commercial) to catch a given number of a species in a year which will not decrease the total biomass. In other words, each years catch is replaces by that year's recruitment. The Object of every fishery management plan is to either reach or sustain a level of biomass that will allow Fmsy, where F is the total mortality on the species.