I loves me some seafood.

Very early and very often in life people should be taught that animals are not the only source of protein on this mighty planet. Grab a fistful of nuts.

 

All the fish I consume comes off the end of my hook... Tastes much better when you catch it yourself (if you know how to cook).

 

This is why you should only buy seafood from your local fishermen if you are going to buy it and make sure it comes from a sustainable fishery.

 

Heard that, to all of your good posts right there. My problem is that the local fish markets have near all closed their hours and sites for the winter or greatly reduced hours of operation. I like my pescado 3-5 days a week and the supermarket stuff sucks. Bi-Stater, I may need to get some info on you so I can get more active on fishing my own but I like salmon, tuna, and lobster so that's quite a bit of work and time and equipment I don't have. All those resources go to charging waves, road, and mountain.

I'm very concerned with over-fishing issues as well. I keep an eye on them all the time and they're big news here in coastal New England.

 

Yeah man. That is how I do it. I don't want any seafood that wasn't pulled out of local waters. I at least know what toxins are around here. Random seafood from who knows where is too unknown.

 

I only eat a small fraction of what I catch. I don't remember ever buying fish from the store/market except lobster.
Humans sure are making a colossal mess on this planet. It's beyond sad.
Emass, 3-5 times a week? I like seafood too but why so often for you? Are you just trying to be heathy as possible? I'm not anti, just concerned about mercury, pcb's, and other delicious spices. I didn't target any fish in the bay this past year because I feared extra sandy contamination was present in the water.
Here's a naughty fish link (from yahoo headlines this past weekend):
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/12-fish-never-ever-eat-162200617.html

 

Last year the Rock Fish aka Striped Sea Bass didn't move in from the North until way late in the year--the Humbolt hung around farther North than usual.

HOWEVER, the Striped Bass aka Rock Fish Fishery has been a highly contentious one in the Mid-Atlantic for quite some time now. NOAA and the Division of Marine Fisheries operate that fishery under some weird rules that no one I know really agrees with and that are detrimental to Striped Bass stocks AS WELL AS Old Red Drum stocks.

In a nutshell, the rules allow a maximum weight limit per boat per trip, the commercial boats use purse seine nets to capture these fish because they school tightly in great numbers. The way the regulation is a boat can pull in a net FULL of striped bass, dump it on the deck then go to another school. They then net in the new school... If they find the fish in the new school are larger they will then DUMP all the dead fish from the first trawl back into the ocean. There is a specific term for this that I can't remember off the top of my head right now. Needless to say, NOAA in their boundless "intelligence" wrote the rules on this in an effort to push the fishery towards Catch Shares with no regard to the collateral damage or how it actually manages the fishery. NOAA is on a political and ideological path, not a scientific one.

Another problem is that Old Drum (over slot breeding age) often school with the Cow (large) Rocks. Guess what these purse seiners do when they accidentally pull in a bunch of Drum? Dump them overboard because the NOAA by-catch laws make it illegal to possess any Drum. It's a real clusterphukk.

Don't even get me started on how there are no purse seiners in NC, all the boats that come off our coast are from VA, MD, DE and NJ and only leave us with masses of dead floaters off our coast... Same thing happens in the Menhaden Fishery...

I don't like Rock Fish too much as dinner but I sure do love playing catch and release with them... of course we have a much smaller class down here in SENC.

 

Emass:

The experimental Catch Share program has all but killed the commercial fishing industry in the Northeast. There are only a hand full of industrialized fishing operations that own all the shares now. They locked out the family fisherman (smaller boats, smaller catch, staying local) and now sit on their allocations in an effort to drive up seafood prices and reduce selection.

Creating monopolies and fiats is Jane Lubchenko's PROGRESSIVE (she was the head of PEW) version of fishery management. Apparently it's "progressive" to import sewage farmed fish from Malaysia and ruin the lifestyles of hundreds of thousands of American fishermen at the same time...

 

Striped Bass fishing in NY has gotten better and better over the last 10 years. This year was on fire.
When I was a kid you really had to be a sharpie to catch a bass now they are everywhere.
The flounder fishing is what really disappeared. The seals and cormorants destroyed the flounder population.

 

http://uncw.edu/aquaculture/


Working on a solution down here in the ILM.

 

I find it interesting how, since living in utah for the past year, little people in our nations interior know/care about whats going on in the oceans. The same goes for those who live on our coasts know/care whats going on in our interior.

I never heard of anything regarding BLM, the killing/fixing of wild horses, the problems with free range beef, etc when I lived all over the East Coast. And now that I live in Utah, that is talked about regularly, and No one could give a **** about the fish, our oceans, or even the states on the coast.

Any thoughts from you guys on educating people on big picture problems, rather than why care if its not in your backyard? The problem with support seems to lie in the majority being split between coastlines and the interior.

 

I think the problem is that very few people even care about their own backyard. If everybody cared about their own little area, things would be pretty cool. You know what I be sayin? Sorry about the Koombayah moment.

 

carefully, most people aren't too fond of crusaders and im guessing doubly so in Utah.