On 06/08/2013 07:39 PM, Todd wrote:
> 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

Hi Wendy,

Found the certification sticker: the Marine Stewardship Council
http://www.msc.org/

Unable to tell if they help or hurt. But, they seem legit.
Their stickers are on the Raley's Full Circle flash frozen
fish.

-T