In article >, Todd >
wrote:
> 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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Stewardship_Council>
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