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Originally Posted by reason162
Yeah the crowd doesn't want to hear it, but climate change is upending migratory patterns/populations around the world, there is no way its impact on a migratory species like fluke is nominal.
I read that NOAA is taking climate change into account for future modeling, if so that is the only way forward. Yes, better science re sex ratio/slot limits are good and necessary things, but they are baby steps in the context of even a 1 degree F rise in average water temperatures, and we're looking down the barrel of a much larger increase.
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What the crowd wants to hear are proposed changes based on facts and not summise, conjecture or theories which is precisely what climate change and steepness are....theories. NMFS scientists themselves are divided on it's relevance. The facts overwhelmingly show a much more definitive and prolonged trend killing this fishery caused by the same failing management philosophies of NMFS. As I said the facts are there for anyone interested in reviewing them.
