mhaze,

"Classified as recovering" does not mean actually recovering. Recovering from the brink of extinction does not mean the original population is recovering.
ABARE has no data on wild fish populations or biology of recovery. For example ABARE has no idea of ocean food web nursery devastation. ABARE can't count wild tuna. ABARE has not measured and assessed small fish nursery area required to feed wild tuna and ocean animal populations.

Starvation of already low populations of seabirds and whales has been and still is occurring wrldwide.

Oily fish populations are so devastated that salmon aquaculture has announced oil content in salmon has decreased nearly 50 percent and is expected to decrease further because of worsening shortage of oily fish worldwide.

My post above sent by itself before I finished.

Oily fish including bonito and pilchard and herring and anchovies are the food for big fish including southern bluefin tuna.
Animals including fish do not breed successfully when short of food.

Wild fish resources are devastated worldwide and the situation is worsening exponentially with critically serious impact and consequences.

Belly,
No, I am not advocating compulsory family planning, what I am saying is that for those that see population growth as a massive problem. They should look at Iran and Thailand as these countries reduced the birth rates from 6 per woman down to 2 per woman purely from government sponsored family planning. The government provided the education and supplied the means of doing so.

These two entirely different countries have demonstrated to the world that population control is possible without using draconion or inhumane methods.

To me this is far preferable than seeing those pictures of staving kids and crying babes.

OK Henry L find myself agreeing with you
Fact is the day may come when birth control is compulsory
The old saying they will only feed the ones they need comes to mind
Conspiracy, a word that turns some off instantly, thinking it's just more rubbish
But what if our chaotic world, wars population,lack of food for some even water, is a plan?
What if one day we are ruled by a dictatorship, some would, as the saying goes, welcome it as freedom, until its true nature was seen
That monument in America, forget the state, setting out rule to live by and a total world population less than one percent of to days is worth googling

""Classified as recovering" does not mean actually recovering. "

Well maybe yes, maybe no.

But what it does most definitely mean is that the resource hasn't been lost.

I've been talking about this insight (that man doesn't run out of resources) for the better part of 4 decades. And every time, every single time, the response is that we might run out of this or that. Never that we have run out of this particular resource. Because no such thing exists.

We've been told for almost 2 centuries that we'll run out of coal. But it never happens.

We've been told for almost 100 years that we're about run out of oil. But it never happens.

Ditto copper.

In the 1970s we were going to run out of food. Mass famines, even in the USA. Didn't happen - in fact more food per capita than any time in history.

But the doomsayers will continue to say doom.

And the doom listeners will continue to be suckered in.

From my own observations, recreational fishing is having a huge impact, not enough restraint !