Scary fishing story

[tpbrady]

Joe,

A left handed halibut has the eyes migrating to the other side and results in the fish if placed with the gills down the fish is swimming to the left. As far as gaffing is concerned, it is whatever side is down.

[Jimbo]

wc
I saw that show you are talking about. It turned out if the fish farms did their harvest just before the fingerlings spawned then there were no sea lice. This happened once, the next time the fish farms were right back at it. They ignored the fingerlings, and the sea lice were back. She actually figured out a solution to the problem, proved it worked, and then was ignored after that first time. When dinning or buying fish, we will only take wild.
Also did you notice what kind of boat she was driving? A nice 22' Cdory.
Jimbo

[ffheap]

Just something to add.

Our beloved Congress has a lot to do with the over fishing aspect of the story. Back in the seventies, we had a Congressman named Studds, not a very nice guy, who along with a Senator from, I believe, the State of Washington, decided to get the government involved in the fishing industry.

Fishing up to that time, was a family affair. If your father was a fishermen, you were one. Most of the boats were wooden and old, but the families made a living.

Studds decided that there should be more newer boats, so the government got into the business of financing new boats. To the people of New Bedford, this looked good. Congressman Studds was bringing home the Bacon. The only problem was now every Lawyer in New Bedford got into the fishing industry, because the government would help them to buy the boats. Now everybody got into the fishing industry. Hence, over fishing.

During the eighties, the government decided that we had to many fishing boats, so the government bought back the boats at a profit for the lawyers. The only problem, it was to late.

End of story.

Fred

[dogon dory]

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[rogerbum]

[dogon dory]

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[rogerbum]

Too bad I left my boots on the boat. I'm feeling like I need them now.

[drjohn71a]

Notwithstanding the eloquent logic, I mean emotion, of DoD's thoughts, there is an interesting phenomenon about biomass in the sea.

I have read that there has been a cyclic alternation of biomass levels between the land and the seas for millions of years. i.e., some periods experience long runs of oceanic biomass increase while the land is concurrently experiencing reductions in biomass, and vice versa.

So, a dumb thought might be, "Is the continuing increase in humanity simply counterbalancing and maybe creating, a similar reduction in oceanic biomass? "

John

[dogon dory]

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[drjohn71a]

Oh gosh! Now I need to go find my boots... John

[wailedcentipede]

well i'm not a full fledged tree hugger, but if theirs fish closures and logging bans in some areas i pretty well agree with it ... i'm on the side of the fish or tree if theirs sides to be picked ... the good ole days are gone ... more in my youth but i have seen the Fraser river , Sand heads , Johnstone straits, Rivers Inlet and Skeena river plugged up with so many fish boats at nite time it looked like a small city ... i'm surprized the fish have survived this long ..... in my own line of work at the time their was enough spruce logs towed into Prince Rupert harbour to keep a fleet of Japanese freigters going for five plus years .. their were so many bloody freigters loaded with logs they could follow the boat in front of them to get back home .. i agree with logging and fishing but i'm thinking their was a pretty well full fledged slaugter of trees and fish back than ... rules and regulations keep things in check??? remains to be seen it didn't do much in the past ... when i reread this it sounds like i'm a depressed nut case looking for a gun ... hey i'm still happy ... wc

[CatyMae n Steve]

[drjohn71a]

wc Well, there has to be a middle ground weighted toward keeping this world habitable for the future, so don't feel bad about your thoughts. While I think the extreme of wildlife protection is absurd, I strongly feel alot of what is happening is a warning that we need to get our priorities figured out real soon, or we humans are liable to be the ones with distorted shapes, etc.
John

[drjohn71a]

Caty, as deep as it's gettin' from DoD, I think I may need Byrdman's noodling technique explained again! John

[oldgrowth]

I just received this from a reliable source in Alaska. However, he wants to remain anonymous. It is a picture of the new Dan and his new boat DogOnHippie. He said Dan is going to try to save the earth and is looking for converts.