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Bobber, gone fishin, you're both off the mark on this one. The trawlers are big business boats that put a stake in the sand by building a processing plant in New Bedford and spending about 12 million dollars and providing meaningless jobs...and the herring don't necessarily go to Russia...it's worse than that, some of them go to Spain where they feed the penned up tuna...then when the tuna show up in our waters they can't find the herring, they lose fat content and can't be sold for high market prices to the Japanese -- they now get about a 70% rejection rate for the lean, mean and hungry tuna off MA waters.
Observer coverage has been cut to almost nothing and even when they spent four million dollars for observers, they weren't even capable of discerning how many river herring or bluebacks were bycatch vs. the targeted Atlantic herring.
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