Re: Back in the 70's...
rather urgent attempts to understand why some very lucrative fisheries in the Southern Hemisphere were getting less lucrative, in terms of fish populations of certain species
Discussed this with Bill Mollison of Permaculture fame back in the 70s. He said it made no sense to allow mature fish to be caught leaving the sexually immature fish in the ocean. Allowing fishermen to take the smaller fish while leaving the sexually mature fish in the ocean to breed more fish made much better sense. But obviously both Bill and I are not biologists and sexually immature fish will breed more fish than sexually mature fish. Care to explain how?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
