Whales may impact herring stocks’ recovery. No! That just can’t be! The Whales are over fishing?

July 18, 2014 North Pacific, Pacific, Western Pacific

While whales are not to blame for the decline of herring in places like Lynn Canal and Prince William Sound, they may be keeping depleted stocks down. NOAA research fisheries biologist John Moran has been studying whales’ effect on herring; in 2010 he and other researchers co-authored a paper comparing Lynn Canal, Sitka Sound, and Prince William Sound herring stocks and humpback whale predation. Read more here 15:29

a food source for herring, herring spawning populations, herring stocks and humpback whale predation, humpback whale predation., impact herring stocks', NOAA research fisheries biologist John Moran, studying whales’ effect on herring, Whales, Whales also eat krill, whales could be keeping them down

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It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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