[One More Time]

Closing some areas to fishing and leaving them as a nursery to raise more fish can benefit the fisherman. By providing an area where fish can reach an age where they are at their peak reproductive years while safe from over fishing then you have a great breading ground for repopulating the surrounding ocean waters. The area where fishing is off limits will quickly become over populated with fish and the fish will migrate to other areas in search of food and less competition from their fellow fish. Areas that are fished heavily have few fish that reach their peak reproductive years and so there are fewer fish born to replace those that are caught by fisherman.

[summer]

Re your post #33 - I am wondering if that is one of the reasons the commercial fishermen did agree to the "no fishing" zone off the Keys mentioned in this article.