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To: C. Edmund Wright
Could it be that commercial fishing old school is the buggy whip industry trying to defy the reality of change?

There is not much of a market for buggy whips, but people want to be able to buy "ocean" caught fish to eat. - tom

15 posted on 01/15/2012 8:30:43 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

I guess it hasn’t dawned on you that there are less and less ocean fish being caught every year then? The buggy whip industry analogy was not perfect, but it was somewhat legit.

This is a very tough problem with no clear ideological answer. In most instances, government intervention means some bureaucrat telling someone what they can do with their own property. The ocean is not anyone’s “own” property, therefore all of the property rights arguments and other clean clear conservative arguments DO NOT APPLY. They just do not.


35 posted on 01/15/2012 9:15:21 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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