Declining Herring

[sydawei1978]

ban trawling

[jtwhiterock]

ITS THE SAME HERE IN VANCOUVER CANADA...STOCKS ARE STABLE...YHE DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES ALWAYS EXPECTING TONS OF SOCKEYE.. They never come.. The're is never more fish.. Or to many fish...just less every year// Fish management in our oceans cant be handled by govt. Its almost like they dont care.. Get the fish from ocean to grocery store as cheap as possible cutting out gill netters .lively hood

[V3rtK1ng]

If trawling was banned for 10 years in every country in the world, just imagine the fish stocks coming back to life.

[seaslayer419]

funding by PEW... something stinks here

[aviomaster]

Black Sea has been over fished already ,

Bulgarian fisherman set up nets and cought 1 kg of small fish ... in March 2010 ....

No fish left , Almost ... 80% of fish is missing from the Black Sea

[antonbluevan1957]

greedy vandals of the sea.all you think of is how much you can make today .

TOMORROW does not exist is your dictionary.yes keep it up

[PolarisBabe99]

this is shit! with the limits there are now you cant even get to the fucking docks till certian times.. its not nessary at all there plenty or fish in the sea.. and all of you being carefull your overdoing it! you will see is soon

[thereelstory]

What is sickening is the special interest groups spewing skewed data that supports their agenda. Tuna fish are migratory and their travel patterns frequently change. Follow the money....

[dlf09]

they just wiped out everything

[drunkatthehelm]

herring stocks stable ??? i don't fukin think so !!! i fish herring every year 4 the last 10 years and the stocks are NOT stable ...

[forecharlee]

The fisheries are completely screwed by trawling. We are slow learners and forever victims of our own greed.

[sandysawtelle]

I have seen it with my own eyes.Whales floating with the imprints of the trawls cut into their skin.I was there fishing herring myself for eight years,and saw the catch become harder and harder to get.We were purse seining,and what herring the trawlers didnt catch they broke up the schools and changed their habits.This is a very bad fishery.Just look into the north sea fishery and make your own choice

[JMGwalt]

Ye mom is hillarious!!!

[keepertuna76]

For every pound the boats land of herring, you can figure they killed twice that in bycatch. If the herring are too small, or have the improper oil content, or proteins, they will just dump the net, with all the fish killed. It's just considered "bycatch." Perfectly legal-millions of pounds of forage eliminated from the ecosystem. This bycatch doesn't even count against their quota, which is set too high. By Canadian numbers, the biomass is 1/4 of what the US "scientists" claim it is. hmmm.

[keepertuna76]

The "mid-water" pair trawlers label is not accurate. These boats fish the nets right on the bottom, which is where, anyone who has tried to catch herring for bait, live 95% of the time. I have been offshore and seen the nets on our sounder running right on the bottom, catching the herring that was on the bottom, along with cod, haddock, pollock, halibut, and all other groundfish. With no observers on board,there are no checks and balances if they haul up 40,000 lb of juvenile haddock! unreal.

[keepertuna76]

These boats and this style of fishing is wiping everything out in their path. In just six or seven years, the abundance of cod, haddock, giant tuna, herring, mackeral, humpback whales, pilot whales, sharks, and all other groundfish and pelagic fish have easily decliined to about 5-10% of the numbers we saw just as recently as 2001-2002.

Canada outlawed this type of fishing years ago because it had the same effects on their fisheries. Makes you wonder how these guys are able to continue!

[shereebryan]

most people dont care untill its too late