Lionfish now range up and down the East Coast and can be found throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Lionfish dangers: • They compete with native aquatic species for food and habitat • Eat young gamefish and commercially harvested species • Are venomous to humans, and stings cause conditions from a mild rash to death • Females can release up to 30,000 eggs per spawn and can spawn three times a month Read more here
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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