On 4/25/2010 5:53 PM, Steve Pope wrote:
> > wrote:
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>> (Steve Pope) wrote:
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>>> > wrote:
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>>>> (Steve Pope) wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> I would think the logic is that buy buying introduced/invasive seafood,
>>> you are enabling the practice of introducing invasive species.
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>> 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.
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>> Fish them to a sustainable population level.
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>>> 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.
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>> What is done is done. The problem needs fixing, and ignoring it won't
>> do that.
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> Then fishery managers can remove the invasive crabs, and destroy
> them, rather than letting errant fishermen profit from it.
So how are "fishery managers" going to "remove the invasive crabs"?
You've never seen the ocean, have you?