Reinforcements from Russia and America
Here, at World Fishing, we have often brought up opinions questioning the ongoing fishery management methodology and management by quotas, as well as the underlying science, including the issue of relationship between the size of spawning stocks (SSB) and recruitment, the consequences of sustained size-selective fishing, and the validity of stock-assessment models that ignore non-fishing (man-made and climatic) factors and the dynamics of natural mortality. Such scepticism has been recently reinforced on two fronts.
Here, at World Fishing, we have often brought up opinions questioning the ongoing fishery management methodology and management by quotas, as well as the underlying science, including the issue of relationship between the size of spawning stocks (SSB) and recruitment, the consequences of sustained size-selective fishing, and the validity of stock-assessment models that ignore non-fishing (man-made and climatic) factors and the dynamics of natural mortality. Such scepticism has been recently reinforced on two fronts.
