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My take on Brian Rothschild fisheries science lecture last night at Friend Room |
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A major aspect of the presentation was based on the fact that that the cod populations off Canada have not recovered despite years of essentially no fishing effort.
Dr Rothschild suspects that we should look causes other than "overfishing" for species biomass fluctuations. Read the entire blog at Cape Ann Online.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
