A good friend of mine is an estuary naturalist down near NYC. He told me that this year NY has closed the shad fisheries, the first time ever. I asked if this was a good thing, so they could recover and maybe reopen some day, and he said “once a fishery is closed, it never reopens.”
While shad may not be cod, they were once a popular fish in our waters. Now their population is perilously low.
A good friend of mine is an estuary naturalist down near NYC. He told me that this year NY has closed the shad fisheries, the first time ever. I asked if this was a good thing, so they could recover and maybe reopen some day, and he said “once a fishery is closed, it never reopens.”
While shad may not be cod, they were once a popular fish in our waters. Now their population is perilously low.
Greed… over-population…
When will we ever learn?
When indeed. That’s a sad story, oft’ repeated these days. The cod fishery has been closed 15 years with no sign of real recovery.
Heeheehee. I like that billboard. I recall the big fuss over those bus-side signs of a similar but religiously-themed phrasing.
Yes, the “Atheist Bus Campaign” message read:
There’s Probably No God.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.
I thought the Greenpeace take was pretty clever.