On 06/08/2013 06:38 PM, W. Baker wrote:
> Todd > wrote:
> : >
> : > I'm fond of fish & chips, which used to be Northwest Atlantic cod.
> : >
> : > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_cod#Northwest_Atlantic_cod>
> : > In the winter of 2011-2012, the cod fishery succeeded in convincing NOAA
> : > to postpone for one year the planned 82% reduction in catch limits.
> : > Instead the limit will be reduced by 22%. The fishery brought in $15.8
> : > million in 2010, coming second behind Georges Bank haddock among the
> : > region?s 20 regulated bottom-dwelling groundfish. Data released in 2011
> : > indicated that even closing the fishery would not allow populations to
> : > rebound by 2014 to levels required under federal law. Restrictions on
> : > cod effectively limit fishing on other groundfish species with which the
> : > cod swim, such as flounder and haddock.
> : >
>
> : Hi Billy,
>
> : Something went really, really wrong with that Cod fishery. The
> : game managers must have really screwed up something big time.
> : I hope they get it back to sustainable levels before too long
> : with the absolute minimum of job loss. We may all have
> : to settle on flounder or haddock for a while. As has been
> : said before on these pages, man does not live by fish
> : alone. :-)
>
> : I would hate to have happen what happened in Japan to
> : their herring population. Use to be like Alaska's.
> : Now it is permanently gone (over harvesting).
>
> : -T
>
> Cod used to be enormously abundant but ws grossly overfished and whten
> they brought in the big Russia and other european ships it became even
> more over fished. In addition, the harp seals who have the cut
> whitefurred babies that used tobe hunted heavily off Greenland, eat cod.
> Now their populatin has exploded because the hunting was
> forbidden(remember all thebusiness about slubbing the baby seals on the
> Greenland ice? so even with controlled fishing by humans the population
> ccannot recover very fast. cod is a large fish when adult adn takes
> aquite a while to be able to reproduce so that slows everyting down. when
> I was a child cod was a cheap fish eaten by the poor. Now it is scarce,
> limited in catch and quite expensive. Europe used to survive on salt cod
> for humdreds of years. Now it is harder adn more expensive to get.
>
> It is NOT a short fish and game department problem that can be fixed in a
> season or two. It will take decades if ther is not toomuch cheatingand
> cod smuggling. If they do not control the catch it may well never
> recoverc. Right now the same thing is happening with Chilean Sea BAss
> which is also a very large and slow developing fish that needs years to
> reach breeding maturity. With the overfishing most of the adults are gone
> adn there is exptreme danger of the entire population being wiped out
> because they don't wnat to leave the youngsters in the sea to mature and
> breed.
>
> One should thnk of these things before buyin these fish.
>
> Wendy
>

Hi Wendy,

Raley's Full Circle flash frozen fish have a Sustainable Fisheries
tag on them. I have searched the web but can't find anything about
this tag. We should look for this tag before purchasing fish.
(Hope it is real and not a crock of poo to get us to pay more.)

-T