In face to face meetings we were told Recs were not the problem. Tribal Longlines were. Tribal treaty rights are going to trump these closures.

Ray Hilborn-UW Professor disagrees with MPAs

“There’s this idea that the only way you can protect the ocean is by permanently closing parts of the ocean to fishing, with no-take areas,” said Ray Hilborn, a professor in the UW’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. “You protect biodiversity better by regulating fisheries over the country’s entire economic zone.”

“If the problem is overfishing or bycatch, then fisheries management is much more effective than establishing MPAs because you regulate the catch over the entire economic zone,” Hilborn said. “I don’t see how anyone can defend MPAs as a better method than fisheries management, except in places where you just can’t do management.”

Read this link for counterpoints.

http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/07/1...ine-ecosystems/