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http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/call-to-cut-rising-hauls-of-forage-fish-20120402-1w8ou.html Call to cut rising hauls of forage fish Henry Fountain April 3, 2012 NEW YORK: An international group of marine scientists is calling for cuts in commercial fishing for sardines, herring and other ''forage fish'' whose use as food for fish farms is soaring. The catches should be halved for some fisheries, the scientists say, to protect populations of both the fish and the natural predators that depend on them. ''The message is, if you cut back on harvesting of forage fish, there will be benefits,'' said Ellen Pikitch, director of the institute for ocean conservation science at Stony Brook University and chairwoman of the taskforce that produced a report on the matter. The report, Little Fish, Big Impact, financed by the Lenfest Foundation through the Pew Charitable Trusts, details how fishing has increased for these types of fish. They account for 37 per cent, by weight, of all fish harvested worldwide, up from about 8 per cent 50 years ago. Advertisement: Story continues below The consumer market for forage fish is relatively small; most are ground and processed for animal feed and nutritional supplements and, increasingly, as feed for the aquaculture industry. Forage fish are an important link in the food chain, eating plankton and being consumed, in turn, by larger fish such as tuna and cod, as well as by seabirds, dolphins and other marine mammals. The report cites several cases in which overfishing has led to the collapse of populations of larger fish or other predators. On the US east coast, the fishery for menhaden (forage fish) is the largest in the region, and about 80 per cent of the catch is processed into meal and other products. The abundance of menhaden has declined over the past 25 years, said Edward Houde, a professor at the University of Maryland centre for environmental science and a member of the taskforce, because its reproductive rate has fallen. Yet fishing has continued at a high rate. An official with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Bob Beal, said that in 2010, the menhaden population was estimated to have been reduced to 8 per cent of its potential. As a result, Mr Beal said, the commission has recommended reducing the allowable catch so the population roughly doubles, to a threshold of 15 per cent of the maximum level, with an eventual target of 30 per cent. The New York Times Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/call-to-cut-rising-hauls-of-forage-fish-20120402-1w8ou.html#ixzz1r0vu7Ajq [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
