Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02
Time to start charging a price/lb. commensurate with the state of the species, so they don't have to harvest so many fish to pay the bills. Why do fish markets seem to be immune to the priciple of supply and demand?


When the cost to hatch, feed, release, assess, forecast, set seasons, monitor and enforce fisheries is taken into account.... each harvested spring chinook probably adds up to ~10 grand on average. Trying to be conservative here, but that figure is at least in the correct order of magnitude.

When the average fish weighs 6-7 pounds, $500 per pound doesn't even begin to cover it.
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