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To: MarMema
Indeed, at the conference, preserve proponents declared that at least 600 new protected ocean areas would be needed to come half-way close to that goal—and that a better objective might be 30 per cent or even 40 percent of the world’s oceans.

They can rope off all they want but they can't protect fishies from other fishies. Do these idiots realize how many fish exist in the oceans? It is an amazing renewable resource and no matter how many fish are taken by man the fish will come back. That doesn't mean there should not be management and restrictions at times

13 posted on 09/17/2016 4:35:30 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk
Do these idiots realize how many fish exist in the oceans? It is an amazing renewable resource and no matter how many fish are taken by man the fish will come back.

Absolutely untrue. Ever hear of jewfish (now called politically correct goliath grouper)? They were well on their way to extinction solely from overfishing until in 1994 they were declared protected and have slowly been making their numbers back up since then. even the seemingly endless numbers of menhaden have taken a hit recently primarily due to the demand for fish oil - a bogus dietary supplement similar to snake oil in its benefits for the human body. Commercial fishing needs curtailing from time to time, although doing it by imperial decree by emperor 0bama is the wrong way to go about it.

Commercial fishermens' income is directly dependent on how much they catch; they have no incentive to do anything but catch as many as they can before someone else does - as someone else mentioned it's called the tragedy of the commons

27 posted on 09/17/2016 5:08:54 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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