The headline says Greedy Dogfish Blamed for Mass. Fishery’s Problems.
But the article points out that the spiny dogfish, a small shark species only now recovering from decades of overfishing, is not regarded as the problem by most scientists and regulators. The complaint of the fisherfolk seems to be that the dogfish, or any species that isn’t H. sapiens, has the temerity to eat any fish at all.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because the same charges of greed and demands for suppression have been leveled at sea lions, cormorants, orcas… and on and on. And yet, oddly, in all these situations, the only common factor is humankind – human overfishing, human pollution, and in some cases invasive species introduced by humans.
So who’s really the greedy one?
Well?
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October 14, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I really doubt dogfish are the root of the problem even if they are overrepresented in the contemporary ocean.
October 16, 2009 at 6:04 am
But John, of coures they are not the root of the problem, it’s the cormorants, remember?
And those Piping Plovers, too!