ghaynes1 wrote:
Not to open a debate about global warming here but I was curious what my fellow anglers thought about the following question:
For whatever reasons(weather, too much fishing pressure, pollution, lack of public access, etc), have you noticed a decline in your success fishing? Are you catching fewer fish? Do you work harder to catch now than you did say 5 or 10 years ago?
Any particular reasons that you think has changed your results or are they just as good as always?
I'll give you my thoughts on this later. You folks go first.
Not to open a debate about global warming here but... (
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Declining for sure. 30-40 years ago I fished for food. In other words what I caught was worth at least close to what it cost me to catch it. Nowhere near that today, at last in the same places I used to fish 30 or 40 years ago. There are more people, more recreational fisherman, more spear-fishermen, and I think more commercial fisherman and they have all got better at catching whats out there. I am not a land hunter, but I have been saying for at least 20 years that catching many ocean species has become and will continue becoming more like hunting. Harder to find and more expensive to catch / kill.