Dismal Ilex Season in Falklands; All Jiggers Leave Zone

Friday, May 8th 2009 - 11:03 UTC

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RF smith
Re the Ilex fishing season: I hope that the stocks are indeed still strong, but one has to seriously question whether the quotas allowed, year to year, are just simply way too much for the Ilex to bear; I'd bet they are. Maybe the scarcity this year owes to other factors unrelated to human activity, but I think there is always a tendency to take quantities that cut right to the very edge, and probably, more often exceed any given resource's sustainability!

Cut back by at least a third on the Ilex quotas and keep it at that level (or lower if conditions persist) for the next ten years...even in the “apparent” face of abundance in any future years. Dont lose sight of the fact that the size of the Ilex resource is always just an educated guess; you dont want to let greed wipe out the local fishery as it did Cod fishing on the Grand Banks. Let prudence prevail.
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Luis
well some legislative members have economic interests in the fishing companies, may be they could set aside their greed for the sake of the rest of them.
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