Whitebait woes

The life cycle of the whitebait is just 90 years.  This means that if we deplete the fish when they are at their smallest and most easily caught we remove their ability to breed and thus replenish the population.  The population is taken from is no longer is sustainable.  We need to put in place some sensible way of managing the way the whitebait are being harvested.  

However, the idea of most people who take whitebait do not on the highest of incomes.  Some of their income is supplemented by taking Whitebait and selling it and we may need to compensate these in the form of supplemental income or alternative sources of income while they become used to not using Whitebait as an income stream.

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