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Old 11-23-2011, 10:50 AM   #5
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This fishery should have been completely closed for the last 2 decades and a bounty placed on dogfish to keep their numbers controlled. It astounds me that they allowed fishing even for the big breeders FOR YEARS and YEARS when the stocks were trying to recover.

IMO fishery managers at all levels have got to go. They are being pulled in to many directions in an effort to maintain maximum yield theory of commercial fishing and that is downright dumb thinking...it can not be done accurately with today's technology.
Maximum Sustainable Yield is a pseudonym for "Total fish we think can be caught before a complete stock collapse occurs."
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