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Originally Posted by Letum
"So long as there are sufficient stocks"
i.e. so long as the population can sustain the volume of harvest.
That was not the case in the past and was certainly not the reasoning that
lead to the decline of whales.
If Dodos where hunted "So long as there are sufficient stocks" we would
still have Dodos today.
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Unenforceable. We can't even stop the hunting of wholey protected species. Besides, what is 'sustainable'? Counting and tracking the numbers of mating pairs on land is one thing; you can even pen the endangered species in reserves. You can't do that with aquatic species, and keeping track of them is not so neat and easy.