The covert sublime and incessant erosion of freedoms continues until YOU stop it.
It's a choice not to become a "boiled frog".
They want us angry, hungry, broke and unarmed.
The socialist tyrants are pushing on every front.
Just a guess. Liberal do gooders?
Already gone here. when I was a young man you could cross the San Sebastian River, when the fleet was in, by jumping from boat to boat.
Government still killing jobs and making it illegal to buy cheap local fish and shrimp.
Plus, with Agenda 21 type of efforts trying to keep people off of the best fishing beaches in NC and VA, soon we won’t be able to catch our own.
Dammitall2hell!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think this is as simple of an issue as you think. It’s certainly NOT a pure left versus right issue at all. This is not a situation of fisherman versus environmentalists.... it’s a situation of commercial trawl fishermen versus sports fishermen. That is, it’s a somewhat conservative group against a very conservative group.
The notion that 97% of the people are begging for the right to eat those three varieties of fish is ludicrous. It’s the commercial fishermen who are “running to the left” on this issue - running to the left of the sports fishermen.
The sports fishing industry has evolved to an industry of more catch and release than anything else. The commercial fishing industry will have to evolve to a more farm based industry IMO.
If the problem is a lack of fish, the solution is proven and easy: MAKE MORE FISH!
This has been established with everything from mammals, birds, insects and even plants. Breed a whole bunch of them for release, and though the attrition is high, pretty soon you are up to your elbows in critters.
The technology for doing this with fish is fairly inexpensive, just needing a tug boat, pontoons, and a double or triple drop net. It’s called deep water aquaculture.
The tug takes the pontoons out to sea, far enough away from the coast to avoid polluting the “arable ocean” near the coast. Ideally in the lee of a rocky island. Then it drops its nets and put wild hatchlings of the desired type in them. The current cleans and aerates the water, and the fish are fed along with antibiotics.
When they are mature enough the nets are slowly dragged back to where wild populations of those fish live and they are released with the wild population.
The end result is that, again, attrition is high, but the newly released fish mature and mate with the wild fish, and are generally healthier and better fed, so the wild fish population is improved both in numbers and quality.
Other animals and fish eating them also improve because of a better diet.
Gee what could go wrong
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/15/BAD11MJGGD.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/14/state/n132311S39.DTL
What’s really interesting to me is that commercial aquaculture has not taken off in a big way in the US which is somewhat surprising. The US helped pioneer industrial agriculture and food production and productivity has exploded, lowering food prices and increasing both the quantity, quality, and availability of nutritious food to everyone. Yet fishing remains the same today as it has for the last several thousand years of human history. Certainly people have better boats now and GPS guidance systems and sonar to help find fish, but the fundamentals are the same, men in a boat with a net.
Modern poultry, pork, and beef production differ vastly from pre-industrial practices and it’s well past time for fish production to catch up. Wild fish stocks are rapidly depleting and eventually everyone will be eating farm raised fish anyway so now is as good of a time as any to make the switch.
Thank you for posting the story and inviting me to join in the conversation on freerepublic. I have read over the comments and saw some good ideas. I would like to answer any questions anyone may have. We need to have an open and honest discussion about how we should manage our fisheries in a way that preserves the resource and benefits everyone.