well this is my last post on the subject, (everybody says yeah!!!) but i cant resist.
so take it one step further, What are we supposed to do? Some would have us living in mud huts and eating dandelion leaves and synthetic protein pellets�..go ahead and dig in. I for one am gonna keep catching fish, buying fish caught in the ocean, eating those fish, and driving my V8 truck. Like I said above, we are faced with complex management issues. The place I just visited, eagle lake, in the 1950�s was down to 20 fish that migrated to pine creek to spawn. There were 20 eagle lake trout left that could spawn in the second largest natural lake in CA! fish and game observed this and saved this species. In the first year, 1959, they captured these fish, and grew and released 200,000 fish from these 20 fish. 50 years later eagle lake is a thriving fishery and the eagle lake genes are distributed to lakes all over the western US. Where there is a will, there is a way. Salmon and shrimp are being farmed all over the world�..the optimism is that the entrepreneurial spirit, free markets, research and development, and innovative management approaches will keep things going as best they can given the population pressures. as far as solutions to population control....best left for another forum.
