A person that I know had to have an obsever on his gillnet boat yesterday. He had to also bring the heads in and were countered as part of his qouta. Heads are the fish that were eaten by dogfish and only the heads remained in the gillnet.
On one of the draggers the obsever was also obsevering what the dragger was bringing up from the bottom such as rocks, sea growth etc: as sometime in the future this will come back to haunt the draggers as destroying the bottom. Imagine what the scollapers will go through with an obsever on board as they dredge the bottom.
This is the beginning of the end for many commercial fishermen.
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