Halibut Commission at Crossroads as Fishery Hits Record Lows
Fish biologist Juan Valero went to work for the International Pacific Halibut Commission in 2008, and soon emerged as a dissident voice inside this organization that sets harvest levels for the U.S. and Canada.
Valero was convinced the commission models used to assess halibut had serious flaws that overestimated the size of the resource. He warned that this risked overfishing a halibut population that was already in cyclical decline.
Senior commission staff had a far more optimistic view. They were charged with presenting scientific...
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