nj commercial fishermen overharvesting marine life - birds dying
Bk1492
and they are overharvesting marine life. thereby killing birds. we need
environmental interests to control these boards - not commercial interests
whose pockets are filled with money to kill. horseshoe crabs for example are
completely overharvested and the birds that relied on that food source are also
dying.
Get the commercial and hunting interests off the board that regulate wildlife
and marine life.
ap...@wallnet.com
If they do too much overharvesting they will be out of work. Sounds like
a situation that is self-regulating.
How do the birds get to the horseshoe crabs? The crabs spend 99.9% of
the time on the bottom and only surface/beach themselves to mate. I
guess the birds could eat the dead ones that wash up, but other than
that they wouldn't be a staple of the birds' diet.
TomofSNJ
>From: ap...@wallnet.com
>Date: 6/5/00 3:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <393C01...@wallnet.com>
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>Bk1492 wrote:
>>
>> Nj commercial interests control all of the limits set on commercial fishing
>-
>> and they are overharvesting marine life. thereby killing birds. we need
>> environmental interests to control these boards - not commercial interests
>> whose pockets are filled with money to kill. horseshoe crabs for example
>are
>> completely overharvested and the birds that relied on that food source are
>also
>> dying.
>>
>> Get the commercial and hunting interests off the board that regulate
>wildlife
>> and marine life.
>
>
>If they do too much overharvesting they will be out of work. Sounds like
>a situation that is self-regulating.
Unless you have a guy with a very large debt on his boat and he is forced to
overharvest to met the payments. It is true that he would love to be in a
situation were it was self-regulating but the truth is he is going to do what
ever to met the boat payments.
I know what I experience back in 1989 when the Russian fishing fleet visited
New Jersey. Their was noting caught the next year.