An excerpt: "Is there any hope for our overfished oceans? The new fish stories can be read as parables about technology. What was, once upon a time, a stable relationship between predator and prey was transformed by new 'machinery' into a deadly mismatch. This reading isn't so much wrong as misleading. To paraphrase the old NRA favorite, FADs don't kill fish, people do."
An Atlantic bluefin tuna at slaughter, 06/07/09. (photo: EndOfTheLine.com)
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But before that I have a confession. I have,and still would if possible, fished for large, 800lbs and up, blue fin off the coast of Nova Scotia. People like me and the people I fished with did not fish the blue fin into near-extinction. The commercial fishermen I fished with caught two or three a year if lucky. Don't blame them. Blame long liners, blame fish roundups in the Mediterranean, blame corporate fishing. Qualify fishermen to mean wholesale fishers, not the retail crowd. Incidentally in ten years of doing this I lost seven giants, but never on a slack line, and I never landed a bluefin tuna. Yet the experience of having tried and lost was worth doing.
Gus Seligmann
Denton, TX
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