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Old 08-20-2020, 12:26 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by thefishingfreak View Post
Serious question: Why does everyone point the finger at the commercial sector? The ten percenters?

When the actual numbers of counted dead fish from Mrip reports are Ninety Percent higher.
90/10 recreational dead fish verses commercial dead fish.

What if the numbers were 60/40, you would still point the finger at the commercial fisherman?

What if they were 50/50? Would you accept 50% of the blame then?

A million pounds sounds like a lot, but what about the other NINE MILLION pounds of dead fish from recreational anglers?
Not everyone! I for one have been saying for years that it's not the legal commercial guys by any extent of the imagination and have written on this very subject repeatedly. I add the word 'legal' commercial as once you cross the line then you are no longer a commercial, you're a poacher. Same hold true for recreational.

It's the easy answer to point a finger and say it's the other guy, he needs to change while I keep on doing my thing; it's human nature, really.

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