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Omelet[_7_]

In article >,
(Steve Pope) wrote:

> Omelet > wrote:
>
> > (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
> >> In the Barents Sea, king crab
> >> was introduced in the 1960s. The crab has spread quickly and
> >> has become an invasive species that is seriously impacting the
> >> ecosystem. We recommend consumers "Avoid" imported king crab
> >> and choose king crab from the U.S.
>
> >This statement, to me, is a good reason to eat it. I ran across an
> >article on this once where there were getting to be too many King Crab
> >in some areas.
>
> I would think the logic is that buy buying introduced/invasive seafood,
> you are enabling the practice of introducing invasive species.

I view it as correcting an accident.
If they are fished down to reasonable numbers, then they won't hurt the
native species. Leave them alone and the damage will get WORSE. Once
the error has been made, there is only one way to fix it.

Fish them to a sustainable population level.

>
> There may be some short-term benefit in fishing out invasive species
> (if that is even possible), but not if in so doing you are
> rewarding bad behavior by commercial fisherman.
>
> Steve

What is done is done. The problem needs fixing, and ignoring it won't
do that.
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