How can I say much about the paper, before I can legally quote it?
What I can say, is it will show that a commercial season would destroy the breeding population. This will be clear. This by itself is a deal stopper for opening a season.
It will also show that the Goliaths are essentially a non-factor to sport fish or any choice fishing species that the fishing lobbies care about....and that claims of fisherman that the goliaths have eaten all the life on their favorite fishing grounds, and ruined their fishing, will be shown to be absolutely wrong. Goliaths have a very slow metabolism, eat very little, they don't eat what the fisherman want to catch, or what the desired catch of the fisherman would want to eat, etc...
I think we have a greedy bunch of commerical spearfisherman that want to make big money shooting goliaths, and they need to be shown as what they are, and how destructive this practice would be. I will support any sustainable harvesting/ spearfishing of species we like to eat, that are good for human consumption. Goliaths will never be part of this.
DD...Are we on the same page in this, or are you with the commercial spearos on this?