Times Scientists: Fish Harvesters and Stocks Collapse

times scientists: Fisheries have been marked by their boom-and-bust natures, and by the fish harvesters who have been left out in the cold when stocks collapse, according to Hamilton Spectator. You have to think that a startling amount of it is because of what we don't know not only what we don't know about commercially important species, but what we don't know about the whole spectrum of marine life that lives off our shores. Fish harvesters have been issuing warnings, too, about the catch rates of specific species they are fishing, and about the general abundance of other known species. Look at federal fisheries science reports, and one of the most startling things is the number of times scientists write about the information they don't have. Many aspects of Atlantic hagfish life history and behaviour, including their mode of reproduction, remain unknown. Here are a few samples. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.