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NOAA's Catch Shares Fisheries Debacle (attacks on food supplies ramp up)
American Thinker ^ | December 23, 2010 | Mike Johnson

Posted on 12/27/2010 6:12:57 PM PST by Ron C.

Barrack Obama came to office with an agenda to fundamentally change America.  An element of his agenda is a plan, known as catch shares, to restructure the nation's fishing industry.  The author of his plan is Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the environmentalist rock star and former vice chairperson of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).  When it comes to the oceans, the protection of fish, and the punishment of the evil fishermen, Dr. Lubchenco is as extreme as Obama's former green jobs czar, Van Jones.

Obama, with no managerial experience himself, didn't simply make Dr. Lubchenco one of his numerous czars -- he anointed her as the head of NOAA despite her own complementary lack of managerial experience.  Effectively, Obama has given the EDF control of the $4-billion, 13,000-person government agency that oversees the national fisheries.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: commercialfishing; fish; fisheries; food; government; noaa; survival
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To: DonnerT
"Soilent green is us!"

Haaaarrr - unless we raise a lot more hell than we have so far to date. We need to slap our Congress-critters so hard their ears ring for a month - hang them in effigy - burn dummies of them at the stake coast to coast - and TELL THEM, we will stop JUST doing it to effigies if they don't act to reign in this out-of-control fed-gov.

21 posted on 12/27/2010 7:20:49 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: Melchior
"I wonder who will be in charge?"

Well, damnit... WE are supposed to be in charge. Not 'them.' I think we need to underline that rather harshly somehow. Would 3 million standing outside their doors in DC with pitchforks do it? Somehow I think even that might not elicit the needed attention.

22 posted on 12/27/2010 7:24:46 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: Quickgun
"...smokeless propellant disobedience."

LOL

THAT WILL get attention... but, most likely not the kind we want.

23 posted on 12/27/2010 7:27:40 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: Ron C.; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP

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Double?

Gasoline prices are now close to triple that of January 2009

- and:

“Under my plan electric rates will skyrocket!”

- B. Hussein Oponzi Junior


24 posted on 12/27/2010 7:33:21 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSPICIOUS MIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve

And Cattlemen in Texas are going bankrupt because they aren’t getting the appropriations they used to get. Everything’s going downhill.


25 posted on 12/27/2010 7:36:14 PM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: All
Come on... someone needs to come up with a quick and easy way to make some Congress-critter dummies - full, accurate facial recognition mandatory (photo pasted on, etc) - to be used in sending the video to ALL the deserving Congressional miscreants!

Something like that... burn ten per day until all have been properly notified of our displeasure!

Wouldn't addition of a few media-moguls to the mix help as well?

DO THAT and get the video's posted on the net... and I'll bet that tightens ALL sphincter muscles in Congress.

26 posted on 12/27/2010 7:38:34 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: devolve
"... now close to triple that of January 2009."

Yes - all too true!

27 posted on 12/27/2010 7:40:23 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: All
"...ALL sphincter muscles"

Wouldn't it really get attention if about 10 or more happened on a single day... a dozen a week, 50 a month?

Well - maybe it's just a nice 'pipe dream' - but, hopefully enough people will soon get mad enough to 'make it happen.'

28 posted on 12/27/2010 7:47:00 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: Carry_Okie
"conspiracy freaks."

And YES! Not anymore!

We have an obvious all-out attempt by our government to destroy what is left of this nation - economically.

I've got to get out of here - I'm going to go see how hard it is to make a recognizable Congressional-Dummy to burn in effigy. First, must buy a cheap but good digital video camera.

29 posted on 12/27/2010 7:52:24 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: Carry_Okie
We have just barely beat back a plan to close the ocean from N.Carolina to Florida for 35 years to ALL bottom fishing. This was to prevent anyone from accidentally catching a red snapper.

Red Snapper in this area are at historical abundance yet NOAA comes out with a report that says they are “at near extinction”.

Congress needs to exercise its Oversite and investigate why NOAA is producing fishery stock assessments that have ZERO credibility.

Lubchenco also was with the PEW Org. and Environmental Defense Fund before Soetoro appointed her to NOAA.

There also is the case of NOAA’s top law enforcement officer who was found to have shredded over 140 case files in his office. This was related to a slush fund thay had from fining fishermen exorbitant amounts for minor violations.
Lubchenco punished him by reducing his salary from $158,000 to $154,000 a year and transferring him to another position.

30 posted on 12/27/2010 7:52:54 PM PST by Captain7seas (FIRE JANE LUBCHENCO FROM NOAA)
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To: Captain7seas

You can bet your bottom doughnut that industrial aquaculture is behind this little scam.


31 posted on 12/27/2010 7:54:23 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: devolve

I was talking to the meter reader and he said rates are going to double in 2011.


32 posted on 12/27/2010 7:54:34 PM PST by ecomcon
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To: Ron C.

“Catch shares are transferable or tradable. The fear amongst fishermen is that the transferable catch shares can be sold to anybody, including big corporations or other governments”

that’s exactly what it is meant to do. It is a monetization scam, like carbon credits, hiding under environmentalist clothing. EDF is Wall Street Banks. One in the same.

I would value the author’s attempts, but he is barely above a business cultist who cannot imagine businesses working against other people’s interests. He knows what it is all about a little, but focuses on insincere hippies or other bogeymen. It’s about the money, the hippies are the “front.”


33 posted on 12/27/2010 7:55:25 PM PST by Shermy ("I was wrong" - Alan Greenspan. "Keep believing in Keynes" - Obama, most of Congress.)
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To: girlangler

Girl, you, as a sportswriter, need to see this.


34 posted on 12/27/2010 7:58:23 PM PST by Grammy ( TSA “We handle more packages than UPS.”)
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To: potlatch

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But a journalist in DC that has a sheep ranch out west receives huge federal funds every year - all from your hard-earned tax dollars

Stand up:

Sam Donaldson

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35 posted on 12/27/2010 7:58:35 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSPICIOUS MIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve
Oh, looks like we'll be eating mutton, lol. Lamb chops, Sherie North would be insulted.
36 posted on 12/27/2010 8:05:46 PM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: potlatch

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Very punny!

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37 posted on 12/27/2010 8:23:32 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSPICIOUS MIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: potlatch; Ron C.; PhilDragoo

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EDF gets “a piece of the action” for fish that they certify as OK to buy

It is “pay-to-play” with heavy-duty extortion and blackmail
Ban fish

Force restaurants and shops to charge top dollar for the EDF-approved logo

No problemo for the wealthy elites
It is like the “content” McDonald’s must post

Yet at the Chi-Chi gourmet restaurants the chubbies can order and have all the fatty foods, drinks, desserts they wish to order

No nutritional disclosures on the menus at those places

Say - where NYC Mayor Bloomie eats -

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38 posted on 12/27/2010 8:31:51 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSPICIOUS MIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: Ron C.

We on the West Coast have been dealing with this for years. The waters off the the Central Coast are part of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary (which goes for miles above and below the actual Monterey Bay) and are overseen by NOAA. If you wish to try and to interpret the many regulations created by NOAA for the sanctuary have at it

http://montereybay.noaa.gov/

Here’s one telling section

The NMSA authorizes NOAA and the program to assess civil penalties (up to $130,000 per day per violation) for violations of the NMSA or its implementing regulations and damages against people that injure sanctuary resources. [See sections 306, 307, and 312 of the NMSA

If your boat sinks in the sanctuary you have 24 hours to get it up off the bottom and out of sanctuary waters or the meter starts running. And yes you could be charged up to $130,000 per day for a commercial salvage company to come and fetch you sunken boat.


39 posted on 12/27/2010 8:33:10 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: Ron C.
"That can't happen here," she said. I watched as the look of superiority fell from her face, as I said "Japanese internment camps, Italian internment camps, German internment camps".......Then the conversations about this kind of thing were ended, never to be listened to again.

The above once happened in my house, but no more. My liberal leaning wife REFUSES to believe it. I am of the opinion that she is part of a large majority in this country.

40 posted on 12/27/2010 8:34:02 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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