As Fish Stocks Continue to Be Depleted, What is the Future of Fishing?
The smart nets, catch sensors, live video, and reporting software are nice, but it all starts with the individuals in the trenches.
For Coty, he didn't love bass fishing at first cast. It took a few (thousand) throws for him to become obsessed with mastering every possible fishing style, technique, and lure. As a third-generation angler, he as a plethora of knowledge and experience on the water and loves sharing what he knows.
The smart nets, catch sensors, live video, and reporting software are nice, but it all starts with the individuals in the trenches.
While it’s nice to support the little guy over “Big Fishing,” there’s another, perhaps more important and direct reason to support reforms designed to eliminate overfishing: food security.
The day that we hit the water with no question about whether or not we’ll catch something is the day that the sport dies.
When bluefin tuna, for example, goes extinct, it’s not coming back. That means no more cans of tuna on the shelves of your local supermarket.