Charlie Witek debunks the arguments of those who don’t want to see additional protection for striped bass.
It doesn’t really matter what the fishery is.
Start talking about imposing new regulations to rebuild a stock or even to halt a stock’s decline, and the first thing you know, somebody starts hopping up and down, eager to tell you why the new rules won’t work, why they’re not needed, and/or why the science is out of whack, and how the fish stock in question isn’t just healthy, but it’s so healthy that, for the sake of the ocean, we ought to be killing quite a few more.
LINK (via One Angler’s Voyage)
