It’s about jobs....Plenty of fish in the sea!!
Damn government....He China poison or nothing??
Once America falls, the rest will be easy.
Here in Md. they paid farmers not to raise tobacco for ten years.
The ten years is about up.
Many barns have fallen down equipment has rusted and fallen apart, farmers have found other jobs.
Most could not go back to raising tobacco even if they wanted to for these rason and the fact that a labor intensive industry has lost it’s labor force.
Much of the same will happen in new England, Boats will all apart, nets will go bad and fishermen will find different jobs or go on the poublic dole.
This is the great plan. Yes it’s stupid, but it will happen, the fishing industry in new England will die, and foreigners will soon be fishing our waters.
Why should we produce anything? We can always just print greenbacks and import all the stuff we need!
We refuse to purchase any seafood which is not a product of the USA. The US river catfish is almost inedible—local pond-caught fish has been good.
I’m seeing more and more fish and shellfish coming from China.
I see that stamped on the package and put it right back.
Not taking any chances....
No, they will just import polluted fish from china, enjoy the Gordon’s Fisherman’s fish while it lasts, next fish you eat will be Glorious People’s Polluted Polluck...
Does Chinese know the ole Deadliest catch saying there is right way, wrong way, and Norgerian way
Just sayin
read the whole article.. at no point did it mention WHY they were being limited
I did read how a majority of the fish eaten in the US comes from foreign sources... even when domestic sources for the same fish exist.
instead of limiting domestic catch, they should be increasing tariffs on imports, helping to shift the market to domestic suppliers
people should point out that the ppl in govt aren’t trying to help them... but make them more dependent on govt assistance
bump
The science used to measure fish population is not accurate enough to determine the true picture. You could be doing fish sampling in one area and find the fish down in levels while they would be at normal levels somewhere else. Yet because of that sample, you think there was a reduction in fish levels. Funding to develop better tracking is being limited by the cash-strapped federal government. Even then fish levels naturally undergo a boom and bust cycle and much can be blamed on natural cycles in the aqua-environment rather than over fishing. Even with lower fish harvests through quotas, the levels have been found to go even lower. What is happening? The answer may be the true cause of the current drop in levels is not understood and it may be a matter of Chicken Little causing an over-reaction. Until the science is there to understand what is really happening, policy makers are really shooting in the dark.
What should we do? I proposed in another post about this situation, that one solution would be to create hatcheries to produce cod hatchlings that would boost the natural levels and level out the boom-bust phenomenon. Such hatcheries would be as close to the natural spawning places as technically possible to preserve the genetic diversity found in the wild species. Such would be located in places that would have all the natural conditions to insure the maximum production of hatchlings. Once the hatchlings have reached a size to be on their own, they can be released to the wild using controlled release techniques that would not stress out any one area where they are released.
The question would be how to pay for them. State taxes? Fishing cooperatives? License fees? Federal emergency funds?
Cod stocks have been dropping for a while now, so I’m not entirely surprised at the limits.
Still, one would think there’s a better way to manage the situation than draconian cuts that are going to destroy the livelihood and a way of life for a lot of NE fishermen. Anecdotally, I could point to market supply and demand.
A lot of the churches in my area have switched from cod to haddock for their fish fries because of the jump in cod prices stemming from the low stocks. As people substitute away from one good to another, demand will lessen, easing the pressure on the cod stocks. As supply naturally increases and prices once again fall, the balance is restored. It just seems to me that we have enough smart people in this country that we can figure out how to solve the problem without destroying an industry.
Assuming, of course, that isn’t the actual goal of the legislation...
I noticed this happening a few years ago and for whatever reason... Our side doesn’t touch it.
This a perfect opportunity to champion the little guy (probably Dems) and while doing the right thing.... Pick up sympathetic Dem votes for our side.