Funny how the main recovery points favored by sport anglers never show up in any scientific data.

1. Over harvest

2. Predators

3. Commercial bycatch

4. High seas long liners

5. Over exploitation of bait fish

These bullet points come up time and again as reasons for our declining fish runs, yet these same issues never appear in any scientific studies as limiting factors for recovery.
Yet armchair biologists cling fiercely to these non scientific hypothesis as the gospel for fish recovery.
Why is that?