Nothing But Net
How do you lose 9 million anything?
And why are salmon counts often so far off? I don’t know much about fish, but based on stories like this every year I was ready to bet our DFO “experts” would get the sockeye return numbers bunged up. But 9 million missing fish? In the world’s greatest salmon-bearing river right here at home?
Also, if your success rate at predictions was just 50 percent, wouldn’t a dart board be just as good?
From the CBC website:
“The original prediction was largely based the strong spawning year in 2005 and the salmon’s four-year life cycle, but was considered to be accurate only 50 per cent of the time.”
via Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery closed again.
I liked it. So much useful material. I read with great interest.
In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.