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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by donkeyd on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:09AM (#35147951)
The Dutch experimented with pulse fishing [0]. This had some good benefits for the sea and didn't seem to negatively impact the fishing industry over here much. It was banned again by the EU, according to some due to lobbying on behalf of other countries that were afraid they'd have to start investing in it too.

0: https://www.wur.nl/en/dossiers/file/pulse-fishing.htm

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by mrpopo on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:34AM (#35149096)
This doesn't look like a significant advance in sustainability, rather in fishing efficency; a "better" sustainability score doesn't mean it's sustainable. In the same way that replacing coal with nat. gas doesn't solve global warming.
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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by drewm1980 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:53AM (#35149244)
Someone thought building a giant taser and electrocuting everything on the seabed was a good idea.

https://www.pulsefishing.eu/what-is-pulse-fishing/techniques

If it doesn't destroy the plants too, it probably ~is better for the ecosystem than what it's replacing, but if aliens come and start dragging electrocution nets over human cities to electrocute us all, we won't be able to say we didn't have it coming.

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Re:California cancels salmon fishing season by mwint on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:00PM (#35155685)
I’ll… I’ll take that risk.
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