Oh, fishy fishy fishy fish!
Posted on 11/05/2004 1:51:09 PM PST by Willie Green
An East Bay man, a North Bay man and the company they ran have been indicted for allegedly lying about how much fish they bought in order to cover up illegal depletion of Northern California fisheries, prosecutors said.
Santa Rosa-based North Coast Fisheries Inc.; company president Michael Lucas, 40, of Santa Rosa; and a former manager, Peter Pomilia, 54, of Blackhawk were indicted on one count of conspiracy and nine counts of making false statements to the government. Each count is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine plus restitution if applicable.
The indictment claims North Coast, a large-scale commercial fish receiver, bought more than 45 tons of federally regulated rockfish, cod, sole and other groundfish it wasn't legally entitled to buy.
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We need to build more fish hatcheries.
Oh, fishy fishy fishy fish!
So far only a tiny fraction of ocean fishes can be farmed. Lots of work going on on the subject however.
i am guessing these guys counted votes in california too.
The Rest of the Story...
These were undoubtedly trawl caught groundfish, so multiply tonnage by TEN to get to the real cost to the resource.
Sebastes rockfish are extremely slow growing, sedentary fish that don't spawn until they are larger than the Whole Fish you'll find on a Chineese resturant's Dinner Plate.
We ended Market Hunting for game and fowl in the Ninteenth Century... isn't the 21st Century about time to end Factory Fishing on the High Seas?
Long Liners, Purse Seiners, High Seas Drift Gillnetters, and Trawling are too costly to the resource to be allowed to continue!
We need much better aquaculture practices too! Bulldozing mangrove lagoons to build shrimp grow-out ponds is the height of folly!
Fish farming is good.
But I'm just suggesting hatcheries.
Here in Washington State there is a drive on to get rid of salmon hatcheries. You know, those salmon that are claimed to be so protected and scarce. They don't want to flood the seas with hatchery salmon because they will deprive the "wild" salmon. They still think that there is a difference between a hatchery salmon and a "so called" wild salmon. They don't want more salmon, they want less salmon so that they can ask for more federal and state dollars to protect the "wild" salmon.
That's why I suggested building hatcheries...
I have absolutely no biological expertise in saltwater fisheries.
But I do a little recreational freshwater fishing, and understand the importance that hatcheries have made to my enjoyment of that activity.
Whenever I read news articles about commercial saltwater fishing, it always seems to have something to do with depleted fish populations and quotas, regulations etc.
So I figure I'll come down on the opposite side of the regulators and restrictors and suggest something radicly different: increase the supply by building some hatcheries.
Yeah, it's a simpleminded solution, but it makes sense to me!
I can remember going to salmon hatcheries in the 50s and seeing all the salmon. These hatcheries have been the mainstay of the salmon industry and to do away with them involves a plan to make salmon scarce and protected. It's the environmentalist mentality.
Phew!
At one of my fish meetings, I heard a tribal rep. identify ONLY the wild or naturally spawned salmon as a tribal trust resource. Makes perfect sense now why there is so musch emphasis on non-hatchery fish.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Just read an article by the tribal leader of one of the tribes here in Washington State who espouses getting rid of hatcheries in the name of "wild salmon". Their agenda is habitat and they are using "wild salmon" as a way to control land. It is sickening.
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