Originally Posted by
bsp
To sum it up, the MLPAs are an epic failure because we do not have the resources to enforce them, they are too much of an economic drain on a bankrupt state, the science used to support the closures was done by interest groups that wanted areas closed, and that science that was done was done shoddily. Basically, the whole process was incredibly biased against fishermen from the start and the conservation measures that it professes to put into place are unnecessarily large and arbitrary.
What the MLPA fails to address and what destroys more eco-systems than any fisherman is pollution. That's my main issue with the whole thing. Habitat will continue to be destroyed, reef will die off, fish will mutate, and very little spawning will occur because of urban run-off and other forms of pollution.