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Originally Posted by Slipknot
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Thats actually out of a fantastic book.
On the basis of data that are themselves suspect, the department asserts that horseheads consume 50,000 metric tonnes (1980 figures) of valuable fishes every year, or 10 per cent of the half-a-million tonnes taken by Canadian east-coast fisherman. Analysis of this charge demonstrates that less than 20,000 tonnes of the consumption attributed to horseheads (but by no means proven) is of species of even marginal commercial value. Furthermore, the presumed tonnage represents live weight-the weight of the whole fish-while the figure for the commercial catch is based on processed weight-only that portion of the fish that is packaged for sale. The live weight taken by Canadian commercial fisherman in 1980 was approximately 1.2 million tonnes. The percentage of commercially valuable fish eaton by the seals can therfore be no more than 1.6 per cent.
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Originally Posted by fishbones
Maybe someone can start shooting them.
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Someone push Greenpeace's buttons enough about them and they'll run over their nets and ram their ships.
See? Greenpeace CAN do fishermen good.
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Originally Posted by Slipknot
count these in this picture and do the math
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What time of year was that?
What did the other haulout locations look like?
Questions that need answers to make an educated guess on real numbers.
Anyone know if WHOI has done any counting?
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