Posted on 04/13/2022 10:54:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government has approved a proposal to increase at-sea monitoring of some commercial fishing trips to 100%.
The government approved the new, higher percentage of trip cover on Tuesday, said Michael Pentony, a regional administrator with the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The rules apply to valuable species that are harvested in the Northeast such as cod, haddock and flounder. Pentony said the new rules will replace the old process of calculating a target for the level of monitoring coverage every year.
The coverage target will instead be 100% for four years as long as federal funding can support agency and industry costs, he wrote in a letter to fishery managers.
At-sea monitoring is a controversial subject in commercial fisheries because many fishermen see it as an added cost that complicates fishing trips. The practice is depicted in the 2021 movie “Coda.”
The new rules revise the monitoring program “to improve the accounting and accuracy of collected catch data,” Pentony wrote.
While many fishermen have bristled at the move toward more monitoring, environmental groups have cheered the changes.
“This is a great day for New England’s historic groundfish fishery, including the chronically overfished Atlantic cod,” said Gib Brogan, a campaign director with Oceana.
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Excuse me, but where is the US Constitution does it state “All land, water and air belongs to the Federal Government”, can somebody show me in the enumerated powers where that little nugget resides please?
Rules to increase the price of food. This is all intentional. It’s not stupidity.
The question is - Where in the constitution does it say that congress and the wh can ignore the constitution? Add the SC
All nations’ ships, or just ours?
I guess at some point haddock became a valuable species?
We used to see it frozen in the stores all the time, and not terribly expensive. I never see it anymore.
Meanwhile in Gotham, the CCP is raping and polluting the oceans to death and Brandon ain’t doing jack to stop it.
And when rules become complex, random and contradictory, you destroy that which is being regulated. I see it happening to America's food supply. Death by ten-thousand cuts.
Bingo!!
They sure like that word “some” at the Asspress.
They're controlling the farmland, they're controlling your damn backyard chicken coop!
They are DESTROYING SELF-SUFFICIENCY!!!!
Hi.
Imho it is clearly apparent the U.S. government is attempting to cause a food shortage.
Fertilizer anyone?
Natural gas? Crude oil transport and new leases. Piplines, drilling permits, etc. Where does ammonium nitrate come from?
Purposely interrupting the supply chain with needless covid regulations and federal intervention.
Not to mention the invasion at the sothern border or what pronoun I’ll be today.
Bad juju.
5.56mm
It is just ours.
Other nations have to have permit to fish in US waters and they’re already 100% monitored if they even have a permit.
Doesn’t mean a Chinese ocean scouring factory ship wouldn’t “accidently” make a detour along the border, though. That happens a lot more than you’d know.
Do you really think it’s some master mind somewhere, or just a bunch of arrogant, pompous but stupid bureaucrats ensuring all their petty rules are enforced?
I served 22 years in the US Military. Frankly, government works aren’t that smart, and politicians are generally even more dumb.
$5.99 a pound, fresh, here in Portland. Now they are even selling pollock, fish that I used to catch just to feed the birds. The lefties are trying to close the fishing grounds so elites like Angus King can make more money building windmills off the coast. They are trying to shut down an ENTIRE lobster industry.
“This is a great day for New England’s historic groundfish fishery, including the chronically overfished Atlantic cod,” said Gib Brogan, a campaign director with Oceana.
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He said, lying through his false teeth.
There are government set quotas for commercial fishing and when the quota is caught the fishery is shut down, unlike the sport fisheries for the same species of fish - which are largely unmonitored and unregulated, with the added incentives of being able to sell their catches legally in some states or illegally in others.
Oceana is another of those do-good non-profits (so called) that know better than we do. And are totally for unregulated sport fisheries, so great is their hatred of commercial fishermen.
We are a communist nation of rules, not an American nation of laws.
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Get used to it or do something significant about it...
McDonalds sells 300 million fish sandwiches each year but it’s Alaskan pollock.
Those damn environmentalists, A/K/A, Earth Worshipers will cause you to freeze to death and starve to death. That is their plans. That is why the Democrat voters love them.
A long long time ago, say the 70’s, while in the US Coast Guard I did some foreign fishing vessel inspections in the Pacific. On on large Russian factory ship (the ship that processed the fish to get them to market) our boarding team was shadowed by a Russian political officer to make sure the crew didn’t say anything detrimental to their operation. Apparently the political officer had orders to stay exactly some feet from us. So we’re standing on deck and the political officer is to our left. We moved to our right, he followed, we moved to our left, he backed up. We started going back and forth. There were Russian crewmen watching and when they figured out what we were doing they stated laughing.
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