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Originally posted by AuntyM:
Surecatch,

I came across several sites that confirm what you say was on that tv show. But it was also pointed out that eastern Russian areas of high poverty still participate in illegal high seas fishing.

So if I may take a liberty and jump to a conclusion.... our "better ocean conditions" in the last 4 years may be due in part to the ban on high seas drift gear.

Some of the sites I read claimed in the eighties and early nineties, "salmon bycatch" on one ship alone was in the hundreds of tons while they were supposedly fishing for squid.