2020 Maine Cod Haul Lowest in History

[OVERBORED]

I used to go to codfish meetings in the early 90s. Commercial and recreational interests were all represented and all had similar suggestions NONE of which were adopted.

 

[Roccus7]

I used to go to codfish meetings in the early 90s. Commercial and recreational interests were all represented and all had similar suggestions NONE of which were adopted.

Cod seem to be really complex, the most telling fact about them is that now, 30 years AFTER the Grand Banks were shut down to cod fishing, it still hasn't rebounded to the point where fishing has been able to resume.

I doubt that anyone would have predicted that long a moratorium 30 years ago. They are now "estimating" that the cod population will recover to sustainable levels in 2030, effectively a 40 year shut down!

 

[Capt Richie]

Computers are fine, it's the "Garbage In / Garbage Out" paradigm. Classic statistical random sampling doesn't work will with fisheries and the "science" is starting to migrate away from this, albeit at a painfully slow rate.

A reliable fisheries model is on the order of weather modeling, one of the two most complicated models in existence which need the world's largest computers because of the THOUSANDS of data inputs to feed the model, and the results of those models are often off-base too.

sounds like a complete breakdown of local government ..vote them out from the Gov, on down..

 

[Roccus7]

Interesting article in May's Downeast Magazine regarding the demise of commercial groundfishing in Maine...