Media coverage...

[B Slate]

There's a pretty biased one in the LA Times Today
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,6485806.story

"In recent decades, the catches of many species, including rockfish and cod, have fallen by as much as 95%. Populations of lobster, sea urchin, squid, sea bass, yellowtail and swordfish have all been in sharp decline. Fisheries experts have argued that some of those species could disappear entirely if steps were not taken to create no-fishing zones where breeding stocks could be replenished."

Now there going to say that fishing species have rebounded 95% after the first year of the MLPA.

[Ohana]

Originally Posted by B Slate

There's a pretty biased one in the LA Times Today
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,6485806.story

"In recent decades, the catches of many species, including rockfish and cod, have fallen by as much as 95%. Populations of lobster, sea urchin, squid, sea bass, yellowtail and swordfish have all been in sharp decline. Fisheries experts have argued that some of those species could disappear entirely if steps were not taken to create no-fishing zones where breeding stocks could be replenished."

Now there going to say that fishing species have rebounded 95% after the first year of the MLPA.

I guess if you ignore pollution, destruction of salt water marshes and estuaries, damming rivers, increasing worldwide population, introduction of non-native animals/plants, etc... as having any effect on the native population of aquatic organisms, then all you have to pick on is recreational fishing.

Insanity = doing the same thing but expecting a different outcome.

Kevin

[Ocean-Angler]

Originally Posted by driftwood

Ocean Angler... Im just curious but... Have you ever gone by the name FishSeeker?

Nope

Originally Posted by B Slate

Now there going to say that fishing species have rebounded 95% after the first year of the MLPA.

no doubt