The U.S Federal ecosystem management plan explains that inter-species relations and environmental variations must be considered. Single species management simply does not fit those conditions, neither single species TAC nor individual quotas under any name. If the U.S.govt. wants (rightly so) to apply ecosystem management, it must IMO overhaul the whole system.
Bob McDonald from Australia posted yesterday about their fishery-history. His last sentence was: Academic disciplines, only 150 years odd old, have not yet evolved sufficiently to deal with integrated coastal and marine ecology…
There's certainly a problem with the Magnusson Act, which IMO is based on wrong assumptions. I doubt whether it can live with the new ecosystem approach that, if not corrupted by "super-greenies" into "what fishing is doing to the ecosystem, fullstop", and indeed integrates all the environmental and interacting factors into a multifarious and dynamic picture, is the right way to go. More on the subject at my site www.benyami.org.
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