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Letter: Net gain

Published 14 December 2011

From William Hughes-Games

So the fish stocks in the Canadian Grand Banks are finally recovering (30 July, p 5). A smart fisheries department would now put half the area out of bounds, permanently.

Imagine getting the fish stocks back, not to what they were in 1930, but to what they were when the Portuguese first arrived in the area. Fishing would be so good that there would be no need for bottom trawls or drift nets. Simple hook and line would yield fantastic catches, and there probably would not be any need for quotas. One regulation would suffice: sink any boat found fishing in the no-go area.

Waipara, New Zealand

Issue no. 2843 published 17 December 2011

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