Re:California cancels salmon fishing season
by pvaldes on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:40PM
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> it seems to just ensure that bycatch becomes waste.
Not exactly. Bycatch becomes energy diverted towards the scavengers part of the trophic chain. They are feeding other animals with it.
There’s a big difference between bycatch you can’t keep and being required to throw away all bycatch, I’m presuming that’s what you mean.
NOAA states:
>Fishermen sometimes catch and discard animals they do not want, cannot sell, or are not allowed to keep.
There’s a huge difference in not allowed to keep and we would keep for ourselves. If you’re netting a bunch of undersized fish you have to release them, I catch lots of undersized fish I’d love to eat but I’m not legally allowed to.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-bycatch
Re:California cancels salmon fishing season
by bradleyjg on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:08PM
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It would be better to ban the type of fishing that produces enormous bycatch and also destroy the seabed.
Re:California cancels salmon fishing season
by tap-snap-or-nap on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:05AM
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Governments and corporations lack motivation to cease this behavior, as there are continually available markets willing to pay for and meeting consumer demands.
One of those major issues that seems likely to drown with a million other major issues.
The regulation nominally exists to disincentivize bycatch but anecdotally it seems to just ensure that bycatch becomes waste.