West coast salmon recovery

[oxn939]

A start to save king salmon would be to stop killing them in the ocean by the 10s of thousands and dumping them overboard as by-catch. As you eluded to, we can have the best habitat and no fish in it... The trawl fishery in the Bering Sea kills more salmon dumps them overboard, than are harvested in Alaska by other means. Same goes for many other species. Its sickening... They dump nearly and equal value of fish over as they keep. All so we can eat those cheap McFish sandwiches.

Bumping this for anyone who is not tracking

 

[Goodfish]

Fish flee for their lives in rare, chilling video of bottom trawling — National Geographic

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

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[SO7mm]

Fish flee for their lives in rare, chilling video of bottom trawling — National Geographic

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

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That video is sickening.

 

[R.K.]

Fish flee for their lives in rare, chilling video of bottom trawling — National Geographic

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

apple.news

As much as you hate to see the video, maybe this will finally help it get some visibility and help move a ban further along. Needed to be banned 50 years ago, but I’ll settle for banning it now.

 

[Irrelevant]

Holy hell that's sickening

 

[INMT]

Damn. Although that video is dramatized by music and Attenborough, that’s f’in crazy. Especially the bycatch part. Needs to be a better way.

 

[Rie Bread]

The good news is that fisheries have shown to be robust to positive change

 

[Goodfish]

As much as you hate to see the video, maybe this will finally help it get some visibility and help move a ban further along. Needed to be banned 50 years ago, but I’ll settle for banning it now.

I agree! We need some memes with Ronald McDonald at the helm and the Golden Arches holding the nets open.

 

[Justabirdwatcher]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/faf.12514

I wanted to throw this out there and see what people think about this new study. The conclusion is that while we can readily identify part of the freshwater ecosystem that salmon use that are in poor condition, we can't show that improving them actually leads to salmon restoration. Salmon (this study was looking at chinook) are declining everywhere, including basins with relatively pristine habitat. The millions upon millions spent to, say, place logs in rivers, isn't going to offset to worsening ocean conditions. The real take away for me was that we need to spend more effort evaluating things that actually restore salmon populations and not things that we think restore salmon, or that just feel good.

How do you know which is which, until you study both?