[HEY4QDEMS]

Because of cod's decline, lobster populations have exploded to record levels

Then why is lobster so damned expensive?

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I was told by a fisheries expert a few years ago that every species that was managed by fishery experts had crashed. It seems that we didn't have a handle on what was actually happening in the oceans. There also was controversy about how one actually sampled the number of fish (and the year classes) from a ship.

Another factor that is left of of just about every article on fisheries is that for most species the fishing boats set their nets on spawning stocks. It is easier to catch more fish that way. I told them that the Pennsylvania Game Commission had figured out that shooting gravid deer was bad for the deer population ( and for the hunters) about 100 years ago.