04-21-2025, 03:00 AM
(04-21-2025, 02:32 AM)Punatang Wrote: Josh Green hasn't touched this with a ten foot fishing pole but Samoa's Governor is super stoked about the benefits for Samoa's people...
Yeah, those folks down that side got some really strong kava..
Seriously.. the sanctuaries are hatcheries. They are where baby ahi come from. That's what they want.. ahi.. and they swim massive migratory routes.. thousands of miles.. and it's work getting them in the open ocean. But man they command the big bucks.
The sanctuaries are there to protect the fishing industry's long term viability. They are why we say the ahi industry is in balance.. ie there is not over fishing. The ahi come around to eat the reef fish, they spawn, and their babies live on the reefs until they mature and get with their migratory lifestyle. And that guy going on about now we gonna have oh boy.. is actually talking about depleting the fish's breeding grounds. Which, of course, will be a short term windfall, cheap fish for all, but it's easy to see in the long term the consequences could be devastating.