Why is catching fish, before they spawn, a problem?
The Mediterranean stock of fish has a big debate on whether it’s an eastern or a western stock. The fish that come into the Mediterranean on a yearly basis are going there to spawn. Of that stock that migrates there on a yearly basis, some of those fish don’t spawn because of age or whatever reason which is still unknown. However, to fish a stock that’s about to spawn, ready to spawn, or that may spawn in that particular season is detrimental to that stock eventually. Either you’re capturing them for a farm and stressing them out so they can’t spawn, or you’re preventing them from spawning in another season that they may return back to the Mediterranean. Why is the state of the stock even a concern? It’s of great concern because that is one of only two known spawning grounds for that particular species of tuna. There’s one in the Gulf of Mexico in the United States and the other is in the Mediterranean. To have a fishery as big, or a tuna aquaculture industry as big as it is and growin
