Yup- it’s sad that a great hard working industry is taking a hit like it is- There are several jobs associated with the fishign industry which will suffer jobs like bait shops, bait and tackle shops, filet services, packaging, preserving, and jobs like cpt, first mates, deck hands, dock workers, boat maintenance jobs, boat storage- the list goes on and on-
Just understand that this is another chapter in The War on Natural Resource Harvesters begun under Noxious Nixon and continued under every President since, except maybe DJT. Commercial fishing was the first group hit, then timber and miners, followed by farmers and ranchers.
Who profits besides the big NGOs (Ford, Pew et al) behind this action? Sportsmen for one, real estate companies for another, then there are the lesser known smaller NGOs like American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy. Audubon and The Sierra Club are the foot soldiers and legal eagles.