Current gubmint policies crowd people into ever larger groups. It makes them more manageable ... more “controllable” if you will.
The fewer people to whom the choke hold must be applied, the easier it is to apply that hold.
If a variety of toilets are sold, and gubmint tells us to buy the 1.6 gallon, few will comply. If gubmint tells Kohler that it is now illegal to build “high-capacity” thrones, voila!, we all buy what the socialist in charge wanted us to buy in the first place.
No independent fishermen? All at once, it only takes one trip to the wood-shed for the guy who now employs them all to maintain order.
Also makes it easier to extort them for campaign contributions.
In 2009, Americans consumed 15.8 pounds of seafood per person, down 0.2 pounds a person from 2008. U.S. consumers spent an estimated $75.5 billion for fishery products in 2009, including $50.3 billion at restaurants, carry-outs, and caterers; $23.8 billion in retail sales for consumption at home, and $1.4 billion for industrial fish products.
In 2009, imports made up 84% of the seafood eaten in the United States. The United States imported about 5.2 billion pounds of seafood in 2009, 64.4 million pounds less than the quantity imported in 2008. 2009 imports were valued at $13.1 billion, $1.0 billion less than 2008. We mainly import from China, Thailand, Canada, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ecuador, and Chile. The top species we import (by volume) include shrimp, tuna, salmon, groundfish, freshwater fish, crab, and squid.
In 2009, the United States exported 2.5 billion pounds of seafood, valued at $4.0 billion, a decrease of 103.8 million pounds and $277.1 million from 2008. We mainly export seafood to China, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Germany, and the Netherlands. The major fresh and frozen exports were salmon, surimi, and lobsters; salmon was the major canned item exported.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch/trade_and_aquaculture.htm