[C. Edmund Wright]

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.

[demkicker]

***Bingo***! You hit the nail on the head.

[bksanders]

CEW - Where did I leave the impression this was a "simple" issue?
Simple issues are the ones where I can call you a name / epithet and you reciprocate, getting us nowhere, gaining no ground.
The "good ol' boys in NC want to see to it that they alone can make MONEY of the "recreational fish". The fish ain't "theirs alone" to make money offin'!
Leave the damn "commercial fishermen" the hell alone. The GOP'er can take their good ol' boy out-of-state invitees on snipe hunting expeditions. They sicken me.
These are the types that pay thousands of dollars to "hunt" a deer that has been fed and fenced.
This is NOT a right/left issue until you consider the governmental extraction of ones rights. That, my friend, is a leftist paragon.
So the good ol' boys want less gubmit until gubmit intervention can help fill their pockets.

97% of "the people" beg for nothing…

"The commercial fishing industry will have to evolve to a more farm based industry…

So the gubmit can say "where" the farm is and subsidize it?
Society needs to "devolve" into a self-sufficient people…

[tacticalogic]

It sounds like the politicians simply looked at it from the standpoint of where they stood to get the most tax revenue.

Sport fishing probably brings more tourism, and results in more money spent per fish caught than commercial net fishing, which translates to more tax dollars collected.

They'll throw their own citizens that make their living off of commercial fishing under the bus for the promise of more tax money collected from out of state tourists.

[palmerizedCaddis]

I am a fisherman, albeit a snobby elitist country club SOB accoring to many of the Dhimmi Trolls who lurk here.

I wrote your good dhimmikrat U. S. senator Kay Hagan Phogbound a letter about this matter several months ago. The reply that I received seemed to say that since some catfish can walk, they are prospecvtive democrat voters and must be protected.

I think the person writing the answer mentioned that someway or the other the decision REYNOLDS vs. SIMMS and the voting rights acts put together makes it unconstitutional to discriminate against any class of potential dhimmikarats, remember a two day old catfish smells like many DIMMS that I have passed on the street.

Good luck in your foray against the loony crackpots.

I think it is exactly kook vs. commercial enterprise. Remember Nixon is the one who gave us the EPA. We can’t blame that on the DIMMS.

Remember you folks in NC have a congressional district that essentiially requires its voters to be able to see I-85. From the Burbs of Charlotte up to the Triad.

Caddis the Elder

[Paleo Conservative]

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.

I bet the sports fishing industry brings in lots more money than commercial fishing.

[org.whodat]

Correct, nothing wrong with farming fish. If anyone wants a lesson on this look at the number and size of the fish people caught off the beach back in the fifties and a couple of miles out. Go try and catch them today.

[Sacajaweau]

Seth Green of Rochester NY "invented" the fish farms circa 1865. His intention was that everyone could enjoy fish at a reasonable price.

He shipped 10,000 shad to the sacramento river and numerous other species into the nations rivers.

His fish farm in Caledonia still exists.

Releasing fingerlings inot our natural waterways is the way to go.

[coolbreeze]

And these watermen have to give up their livelihood because some penthouse “sportsman” want’s to catch and release? I think not. I am a recreational fisherman, so I don’t depend on the catch to pay my mortgage.
You also have the left and right of it backwards.