Wide net is cast for fishing solutions
New approaches to saving fish include no-fishing zones and reorganizing government agencies.
gtasker@herald.com
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In the marine world, nothing is simple.
Not how the government regulates fishing, nor how it counts the number of fish caught. The natural world of the fish itself is equally complicated. Any attempt to strike a balance between the rising demand for fish and the declining supply will have to take into account that complexity.
''Fish don't live in isolation,'' said Ellen Pikitch, executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science at the University of Miami. ``In order to manage a population, you've got to pay attention to all the other species the fish interact with, to their environment, to the places important to spawning, reproduction, nursery areas, and water quality, [and] if things are happening on land, such as pollution and runoff.''
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