A joint effort by three government agencies has so far killed close to 1,000 crown-of-thorn starfish but thousands more are still threatening the territory’s corals. continued 
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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
Something just ain’t setting right to me.
The government can now pick and choose who lives and die’s in the ocean.
Of course, they have been doing that all along by mis managing the resources of the people.
We have a huge seal issue, along with multiple predators that are destroying any type of cod recovery, while watching the ground fish move east and north where there is a huge seal population that is stopping the recovery in Canada.
The water temperature has caused the shift.
Does this action of exterminating the poor little crown of thorn star fish, my newly adopted favorite sea creature, open the door to getting other species euthanized to bring their populations under control?
What do you think?
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