Does the Sustainable Fisheries Act call for the precautionary principle and start talking about ecosystem-based management?
It does call for the precautionary principle and it does call for ecosystem-based management, but I haven t seen any evidence of the precautionary principle being applied. And what s happened with ecosystem-based management has been the definition of essential fish habitat. And for the most part, that s single fish species-based. It includes very little of the natural world outside of fish. A good example would be there are lots of maps that s been produced about where these fish are and the fisheries service, to their credit, has been very good at documenting where all the fish species are or have been over the years. What they haven t done is documenting the habitat in those places where those fish are. As a result, we don t actually know that much about the ecosystem requirements. So in your opinion what s the best way to catch ground fish? Is it to use trawls in just certain areas and close larger areas, or is it to use a whole different kind of fishing method? I think that the bes
