A Conversation for The Science of fish larvae.
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Researcher 43956 Posted Apr 3, 2000
Recruitment is important but there is a problem in working out
how many adult fish will result...
The problem is that so very many fish die before they can breed.
Most die as larvea. Bad weather and water temperature kill vast numbers of these spots of life.
Fewer die as food for other fish and wildlife before they have
time to breed. Many of these are killed by human fishing activity. The remained are chased around by people in big boats dragging nets the size of several football pitches along behind them.
There is therefore a reduced chance of more larvae in future years.
There are signs that the international fishing industry is begining to react to the shortage of fish (see the news on my home page).
They are begining to respond to the real problem which is that too many fish are being caught to today to allow the numbers to increase tomorrow.
This will hopefully change the situation from a free-for-all with increasing ability to catch every larger quantites of fish into some arangement which be sustainable in the long term.
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