"This proposal would allow the retention and sale of Pacific halibut year-round in Canadian waters," says this International Pacific Halibut Commission memo.
The commission is slated to hold its interim meeting electronically Nov. 25-26 and its annual meeting Jan. 27-31 in Vancouver, B.C.
This seems like a great idea to be able to supply markets with fresh halibut year-round. Now that it is a quota fishery is there any logic to the winter closure?
ReplyDeleteAmerica gave up logic when a certain Justice resigned in 1932. Go Canada! "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
ReplyDeleteThey kill halibut year-round with trawlers, so management seems OK with it.
ReplyDeleteNot fishing halibut during spawning season might be a good thing.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to allocate twice as much fish as the science dictates to B.C., have a minimum size that forces the fishery to harvest 100% females only, and now let them harvest during the spawning period ... all to supply white tablecloth seafood to the wealthy. Solid resource management, IPHC!
ReplyDeleteDeckboss, this year-round halibut fishery proposal is a brilliant idea. Just imagine those who suffer from not having fresh halibut to eat year-round. Why stop there? If we once again place a bounty on bald eagles, just imagine how many more salmon there will be for commercial harvest. Why stop there? Just imagine how much more crab would be available if we were to stop the incredibly wasteful practice of throwing back females and undersized males. I weep for the stupidity of our species.
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