It will be interesting to see the stock assessments from SPC that come out next year.  I suspect they will reflect the record catches we've seen these last years both for Hawaii's longliners and across the Pacific.  I don't imagine however that such information would curb the anti-fishery rhetoric expounded by this publication.  That's great that the author is attending meetings like the SSC.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be informing him about the complexity and scope of fisheries management issues nor how the US/Hawaii fleet fits into the international picture.  Lumping Council, industry, fishermen together and portraying them as greedy mavericks with little regard for the resource truly speaks to the bias of this publication and betrays the lack of understanding you guys have for the subject you're writing on.