Jsox - wish I had seen this yesterday and I have a public policy catch-22 worth your investigation. How about a policy that addresses the need for proper enforcement of existing laws / rules / regs that are ALREADY on the books to ensure that they are working as designed and the species are recovering as intended due to existing regs that are ALREADY on the books in the 1st place?
I bet you could come up with some kind of cost / enforcement / fines / education matrix that would both ferret out the many problems of the existing system, and bring current local fisheries management processes to where they should be in the first place - how's dat
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