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Originally Posted by Botnst
One of the things that scares me more than long-lining, which targets the top of the food pyramid, is the vacuuming of the ocean for the middle tier -- the medhaden and their relatives. These are fish not caught for human consumption but for processing for their oil and protein. The floating processing boats catch huge shoals of the fish.
So what, we don't eat them, what's the big deal?
Well, lots of sea life that we do eat depends on those little fish that we don't eat. Guess what happens when you deprive say, tuna, of their food source?
Those damned pogie operations need to be reined in. I can't imagine how terrible the harvest must be in countries that have no inclination to environmentalism.
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Same here. VA is about to bust Omegas @$$, but it has been a long time coming. The problem with longlining is the bycatch is dead or wounded beyond recovery. The biggest scofflaws in the world are the Japanese longliners, as they have been in the past with whaling. Sinking their entire fishing fleet and offering to supply them fish at a discount would go a long way towards stabilizing the ocean.