Fish folk need to be proactive about the needs of the wildlife they capture and realize that they are the people with best legal standing to protect saltwater fish.
Its a cradle to grave protection our finny friends require, however. Tweaking mesh sizes, effort and season are important. But what else?
It being a fish-eat-fish world out there, its tough enough to survive without having your metabolism squeezed by pollutants of every conceivable sort discharged 24/7 to the Gulf, her rivers and bays. from one outfall or another.
But it matters. Want successful fish egg fertilization, and a healthy' infancy as predatory ichthyoplankon? the whole lot of saltbreathing GOM fishes, from tuna to cod to mummichogs - have ecological requirements that change with age or season, but Must Be Met.
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