I'm not gonna get in another pow wow over this..I will however tell you this story bout over harvesting..I've seen it happen with my own two eyes and people said the same things here that they said back then "oh the population is so big" and other such excuses.I remember when I was a kid, going fishing w/my grandpa and dad back home in Louisiana and we used to slay the redfish not literally of course but we used to catch a lot..Problem was back then redfish were considered a trash fish and no one kept them..They weren't that good to eat..But then something happened and this may sound crazy but its true, This chef( Paul Prudhomme) came up with this recipe called "blackened redfish"...You all pretty much know it and believe it or not once peopled learned that they could make redfish taste that good, the population of redfish was decimated it very short order..The american alligator was also hurt badly down there due to over fishing them..People just sometime don't understand no matter how big or small a creature is it can have a severe effect on the ecosystem around it with just a minute change..
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