Omelet > wrote:
> (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.
>What is done is done. The problem needs fixing, and ignoring it won't
>do that.
Then fishery managers can remove the invasive crabs, and destroy
them, rather than letting errant fishermen profit from it.
Steve