Comments on: Video: Are Fisheries Guilty? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-mystery-in-alaska/video-are-fisheries-guilty/1237/ The premier natural history series Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:55:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ian http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-mystery-in-alaska/video-are-fisheries-guilty/1237/comment-page-1/#comment-13862 Ian Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:47:11 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/?p=1237#comment-13862 My Grandfather, when he was a live and working in the fishing industry in England, was a Marine Engineer on the "drifter" fishing boats in the North Sea just about 80 or 90 years ago. he used to say that the boats were so nurmerous you could walk from river bank to river bank when they came into port to off-load their catch of herring. He maintained that what killed the herring industry in the North Sea was over-fishing and enspecially trawling. If we can bail out the car companies why can't we ban fishing for three years and subsidise the fishermen until the herring come back? I was raised on herring and love it but no one here sells it. My Grandfather, when he was a live and working in the fishing industry in England, was a Marine Engineer on the “drifter” fishing boats in the North Sea just about 80 or 90 years ago. he used to say that the boats were so nurmerous you could walk from river bank to river bank when they came into port to off-load their catch of herring. He maintained that what killed the herring industry in the North Sea was over-fishing and enspecially trawling.
If we can bail out the car companies why can’t we ban fishing for three years and subsidise the fishermen until the herring come back?

I was raised on herring and love it but no one here sells it.

]]> By: Grant Patton http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-mystery-in-alaska/video-are-fisheries-guilty/1237/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Grant Patton Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:54:36 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/?p=1237#comment-1083 If the herring fisheries have so depleted in Japan, what has been the effect on their sea lion population? If the herring fisheries have so depleted in Japan, what has been the effect on their sea lion population?

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