Salt Water Fishing Future Outlook

[Anomaly]

""This isn't predicted to happen. This is happening now," study researcher Nicola Beaumont, PhD, of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, U.K., says in a news release.

"If biodiversity continues to decline, the marine environment will not be able to sustain our way of life. Indeed, it may not be able to sustain our lives at all," Beaumont adds.

Already, 29% of edible fish and seafood species have declined by 90% -- a drop that means the collapse of these fisheries.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/

[swnoel]

All you have to do is to look at the destruction the commercial fisheries has done off our coast! Course we can always manipulate numbers to fit our beliefs... can't we?

[moosehunter]

draggers, gillnetters and long lines and fancy electronics have done most the damage. until they stop those it will never come back.

[woodchip]

Bye to Cod, bye to smelts, Elves  are now on their way out,

[Morfishin]

draggers, gillnetters and long lines and fancy electronics have done most the damage. until they stop those it will never come back.

YOUR SPOT ON !!!!

[TroutWorm]

Sucks can't even ice fish lakes like rangeley but those commercial fisherman can take every fish or seafood creature they get in their nets. New rules need to be made to substain this fishery. I miss Maine shrimp and scallops will probably be next

[joefishmore]

Thats why there are still good fish in Rangely

[gunn308]

This needs to be addressed on the global theater. My numbers might be off but 98% of the Atlantic Salmon we put into our rivers are harvested in the North Atlantic and will nevah make it back Icelandic Salmon is a joke it's our hatcheries that are giving them the seed stock.
 

[swnoel]

The problem is that everyone wants to live..."the good ole days"! They're gone... special interest and lobbyists make the decisions... conveniently bribing our elected officials with gifts and cash! Just watch what's happening in the swamp. If it wasn't for Trump, no one would know about the corruption  with high ranking official in Washington! The unraveling has begun...

[Anomaly]

This needs to be addressed on the global theater. My numbers might be off but 98% of the Atlantic Salmon we put into our rivers are harvested in the North Atlantic and will nevah make it back Icelandic Salmon is a joke it's our hatcheries that are giving them the seed stock.

Exactly the point of the piece. It would appear you are a fisheries globalist with concerns for the state of the planet on a planet wide scale. HUNH! Maybe there IS hope for you.  Meanwhile, in general, the right wing of this country does not believe in science, especially to the point it may effect the profits of the few. We have ceased to become a leader in the reality front as we are lead by a reality tv host.

[Anomaly]

The issue is far more reaching than Atlantic Salmon. We have dead and dying reefs, warming oceans, rising sea level, increasing worldwide population, frequent small and large oil spills, ever present chemicals and drugs flowing into our waters......etc etc So, we rush for demise in favor of short term focused profit with NO real plan for the future of the planet that doesn’t involve using it up as fast as we can. 

"First and foremost there has been a huge reduction in commercial fishing for Atlantic salmon at sea thanks in large part to the efforts of the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) and our partner, the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF). Twenty years ago more than a thousand tons, or about 300,000 salmon, from many different rivers were harvested at sea as they migrated to and from their feeding grounds at Greenland around the Faroe Islands and Norway. Today only a few thousand salmon are harvested for subsistence purposes at Greenland and the Faroes. Norway is still netting far too many salmon, but we’re working on that.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2016/03/21/the-state-of-the-atlantic-salmon/#30ec585f48cb

[fishcaptain1]

Everyone always blames it on the fisherman but never on the government and NMFS who make the commercial fisherman fish the way they do

[Squidy]

Everyone always blames it on the fisherman but never on the government and NMFS who make the commercial fisherman fish the way they do

You are soo spot on ... The government regulates commercial fishing with an iron fist, but commercial fishing isn't responsible for the amount of plastic and other pollutants in the ocean. The fishermen are not the ones that have polluted the estuaries to the point of dead zones up and down the east coast.
Corporate pollution is the #1 Cause of the demise of our fishing industry. Look at the Lynn Marsh north of Boston for an example. It's completely loaded with PCB's all from the GE manufacturing plant that has been dumping waste into the marsh for decades.
It's ridiculous to blame the fishermen and over fishing when so many corporations openly pollute the water ways.