Pacific Longline Swordfishing banned

[Pete]

I'm not sure banning longlining for swords will affect fishing, but it's intended to protect sea turtles, which (without really knowing much about the issue) sounds like a good thing.

Longline swordfishing in Pacific banned

[Miss B Haven]

Originally posted by Pete:
I'm not sure banning longlining for swords will affect fishing, [/URL]

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">It sure isn't going to hurt it now is it!

On second thought, maybe it won't do a dang thing huh? Just means a tiny bit less competition for the rest of the world.

"The international longline fleet sets 2 billion hooks in the Pacific each year," he said, "and the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of that."
:shocked: :shocked:

Hey - they couldn't longline out of Oregon Ports before could they? (at least not land here).

[ 03-12-2004, 06:51 PM: Message edited by: Miss B Haven ]