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Originally Posted by tunaman81
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.
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.
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