Bass Parliamentary Question - significant answer

I just seen this PQ answer http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2012/05/10/00018.asp

Studies conducted in the 1970s in Ireland when commercial netting was permitted by smaller boats found that the majority of net caught fish were immature. The shoaling nature of these immature fish close to shore coupled with the dependence on a good year class means that the sustainability of the stock can be disproportionately depleted by inshore netting when compared to other commercial species.

This seems to me to be a statment which puts the nail in the coffin for commercial bassing.