Recent content by John Jones

I did not say that Alaskan king salmon fisheries have "gone to trawl only," so let's establish the difference between trawling and trolling. Trawling drags the ocean with nets; trolling involves hook-and-line fishing, one fish at a time. Troll vessels are generally smallish boats with a...

Does anyone know how I can stop a member from messaging me? He's been told in no uncertain terms twice now that I have no desire to hear from him, and it's just gotten stalkerish and weird. I tried to be polite at first and told him my time was limited, but he responded with some lip about how I...

Anyway, it would seem impolite to continue this discussion because a couple of the comments in this thread indicate that it's not really appreciated. For that reason, I'm not comfortable carrying on with this, so you can have the last word. I likely won't be back to read it, though. I would...

That was fast. I've said repeatedly throughout this thread that my opinion is based on a lot of smoke throughout the years; an established history and enough sightings during the past decade or so to indicate that the IUU fire that first came to light during the 1980s is still burning. Their...

That was fast. You must be sitting here waiting for me to post so you can pounce. I posted that to refute this ^ statement on your part. And like I already told you, I made no claim that most king salmon migrate to the Sea of Japan, simply that there was an issue at one time with a particular...

Most of the trawler activity is undetected and that we'll never hear from Google what happens with enforcement on China's end. The trawlers are out there and have been for decades. As far as salmon not being the "target fish," I guess you don't know how this type of trawling even works. I got...

Yeah, I knew that even as I was posting that you'd say that. But as I already stated, I posted it to provide a historical perspective and to establish that illegal fishing for salmon has indeed been a "trend," as you called it previously, for a number of decades. It hasn't stopped, although...

Just so you know, SE Alaska kings are fished with trolling vessels (hook-and-line catch, one fish at a time), so the king harvest is pretty low. A lot of guys don't even go out for them anymore. This past year, though, saw a 4x increase in returns. Here's how allocation typically works in...

They really weren't meant to do anything more than explain to you that Chinese overfishing is a problem all over the globe and that no place is exempt, let alone the Northwest Pacific; it contains the most productive fishing grounds on the planet, after all. And they don't have to go anywhere...

The article also said this, so no, it wasn't a rogue "one-off." The prevailing species were chum that time (and I can pretty much guarantee you there were other species in that 80 tons), but this isn't an uncommon practice, and we first noticed declining king stocks about the same time these...

OK, so there are two issues going on with the king salmon, and I can assure you that one of them isn't the commercial guys in Alaska. King quotas have been cut to pretty much bare bones in Alaska commercial fishing; restrictions have been in place for years. Here's an interesting read...