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I have given up. This subject is exhausting. How many years are we going to be debating all this? And it goes on and on when the same fools at the helm who are trying to squeeze all they can from this resource with little to no changes to the law. (face it 25% reduction is laughable ). What an enormous waste of energy.
All this proves my point that until you take the price off the fish's head there is no hope for the species. We are dealing with a lot of people who are selfish and see their right to commercially exploit the resource as their God given right. Who gave them or forced them to do this? They need to pull the plug on all commercial activity, include comm fisherman, charter and even guides who retain "rec" fish. Force them to get a real job and leave the SB alone. We have to abandon the "user group" rights theory along with the naive academic Max sustainable yield theory and focus on the fish itself.
I use to be a 1@ 36 guy with no sale with a strong push for forage fish re-population, but now I am for a complete shut down. Zero retention for the foreseeable future for anyone. The reason I am so extreme now is that people only seem to respond to extremes, talking logically to Marine Fishery people is pointless. I have done this and they have responded with ..."yes but the history of the fishery is a commercial industry", I usually reply with If history is your guide then why don't we still have slavery? Then you get the perplexed look on their faces and then conversation ends and we both walk away calling each other F'in idiots under our breath.
Shut this fishery down once and for all and let's move on already. If you think that fishery managers can actually manage fish...just look at how well they did with the codfish.
Spider crab and jellyfish sandwich anyone?
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