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| Fishing Ain't Easy |
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| Thursday, 27 September 2007 | |
Fresh fish are one of the delightful benefits we harvest from a clean Bay, but how those fish are harvested has long been an incredibly contentious and difficult issue.
 The problem is that fish are slippery creatures -- their populations fluctuate from year to year, they are hard to count and monitor, and they move from place to place for unknowable reasons. A fish that is abundant one year may be scarce the next. The reasons could be overfishing, environmental change, or just random chance. Regulators try to preserve a healthy stock and determine how many fish can be spared without decimating the species, but every tweak and twitch in the regulations affects the bottom line of fisher folk, many of whom operate on a financial knife edge.
So what can we do? Support efforts to preserve healthy bay and ocean ecosystems. Buy local fish when you shop. And if you want to learn more, you have one more chance to go to sea aboard URI's Cap'n Bert fishing vessel and see what the fishing life is like here in Narragansett Bay. Click here for our NNN video of a fishing trip and info on how you can go along -- and take a fresh fish home at the end of the day.
More info: A story in today's Jamestown Press. A 2005 projo multimedia report on the fishing industry in Galilee.
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