Old growth Eels?-another case of sentiment before science

Lots of eels are dying and polluting the foreshores of lakes around here in recent months. Give it a rest, we have had a drought . So why the ass about research effort at Muddyworry on risks evident enough to those who know there stuff. Where are the real world advisers who can put risk into the big picture? Why do we seem to be at the mercy of emotion about environment ? How much does the preservationist doctrine now prevent harvesting of a resource, when it makes sound scientific sense to do so. When they die anyway ? what do you think?