
From fishery science to fake news: how ocean misinformation evolves
How does fishery science go from hard data to misconstrued, clickbait headlines? The spread of misinformation is troubling.

I agree but still believe it exists. I am confident that there are others who know much more on this subject than I do; the older I get the more gray I see............Kind of like fish drop off mortality. The term that has dominated last 2 years in our sector ,and yet it's not proven.
I find it sad that some on this forum constantly give the benefit of the doubt to sports fishers versus the resources (fish/SRKW). IMO it is that attitudes like that have been the primary cause for the situation we are in today; overfishing the resource is the primary cause for falling numbers of Salmon. Sure other things affect Salmon population declines, but we consistent fail to properly adjust harvest/mortality to what the current population can sustain.
So maybe it's less than the 5% number being used, but it SAS isn't zero - BFD in the context of the bigger picture.
Yeah but then again from a management perspective, particularly when their are serious concerns about low stocks and stocks nearing extirpation, that should be factored in. After all it's reasonably certain it happens. Most of it will happen with certain kinds of commercial gear particularly gill nets and I expect the number used seems so high.
I guess we can only assume that the Fraser Gill nets only catch sockeye then?But yet it's not proven, so therefore it can't be used. We can't base decisions that effects any group based on this could happen because of our personal feelings. It needs to be studied with proper data. Anyone can pull out formulas and statistics to argue the point.
I guess we can only assume that the Fraser Gill nets only catch sockeye then?