MakoMike is right they will just wrap them selves in the johnny apple image of, we are providing jobs. This is the same approch the New England fisherman has been using for years.

thanks gofish

Been There
 

Reminds me of a great cartoon years ago. (I think it had something to do with spotted owls, not bass.)

First frame: Uncle Sam stopping a logger from cutting down the last tree in the forest.

Second frame: Logger cries "jobs will be lost if you don't let me cut down the last tree!"

Third frame: Uncle Sam steps aside and logger cuts down last tree in forest.

Final frame: With no more trees, unemployed logger blames Uncle Sam and holds out hand for public assistance.

The Feds will step aside and let them rape the resource until it's gone. It's easier than doing what's right, and they'll be long gone (and in a lucrative lobbying career) before the fish are.

My brother lives by Chesapeake Bay and says the problem of pollution in the bay is from the fertilizers running iinto the bay. Everybody down there knows it, but nothing is done about it due to the "Political Climate". Also with Omega fishing 24/7 yerar round for the menhaden, the stripers are doomed from the beginning. Overfishing for stripers is only a small part of the problem.