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I did pop off before I read the article, but whether they are american boats or foreign boats, my point is that those species are underutilized by whom?
Certainly not the gamefish and other multitude of species that need them to live.
They are underutilized compared to what? the cod or tuna or swordfish that were and are overfished. How about the bunker that are something like 90% wiped out.
I appreciate that commercial guys want to make a living, but lets talk economics. Do you think commercial fisherman would be the first group affected by changing times? Why don't they go talk to the steel workers across the country. Times change and people have to evolve.
Simple economics folks... recreational fishing brings a huge amount more than what commercial fishing brings to the economy. That is fact. Times have changed. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but alot of groups of workers have had to change their livlihood as society changes.
Are all these species here for us to harvest? This isn't about better fishing, this is about the whole f'n ecosystem and the bottom line that I see is that we are just going to move from species to species until everything has had their stocks altered and reduced by almighty man. Pretty f'n
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