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Originally Posted by quack quack
QQ You are wrong on this one.If not for the pollution and better manegment the bass stocks could have handled the fishing preasure.  Go read the book Striper by John Cole. |
Not quite. The striper stocks didn't really improve all that much until the commercial fishery was stopped. Then the populations greatly increased. The span of time it took for the stock to rebuild was very quick, and the environmental conditions didn't change all that much.
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Originally Posted by quack quack
QQ Yes one species in a certain area may only be efeccted directly by a certain polutant but everything in that speices environment gets effected.Just because a fish is not commercialy harvested it does have it's place in the eco system.
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That is true, however, you are neglecting the fact that wile one fish may only be affected by pollutants, the species being commercially fished has to face both the problem of pollution AND fishing pressure. Pollution may only be taking a small toll, but coupled with fishing pressure the problem becomes a lot bigger.