Hilborn is a hero
To the worst of the commercial fishing industry. Professor Hilborn is the one of the last of the apparent advocates for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries whose only focus was maximum production of fish products at the least possible cost.
His views are anti-ocean ecosystem, ignoring destruction of the very habitat dependant on which real conservation, protection and restoration of overfished species can take place.
His disregard for bycatch with something of a sneer is reflective of his real concern for the ocean and the long term sustainability not of a single managed commercial species but of the system that makes possible the production of all of the parts of the system that makes the managed species possible.
Don't be misled as Hilborn cruises the world demeaning competent ocean scientists and arguing for his antiquated concepts of "fishery management" while rejecting rational contemporary ocean management.
We understand change is difficult Professor, especially at UW. But you need to adapt, for the sake of the oceans and the burgeoning population of humans worldwide. The solution to every problem is not more production.
