[JohnR]

You are correct, sir!! Mike, you would think that after several years of fiscal surpluss that the trend would be to maintain or at least slightly increase operations budgets of the Coasties but instead reality has the safety net pulled out from under... Imagine taking the $1500 allowance per day per boat for a cod boat to weather this synthetic storm and transferring that into operating funds. Better use of my tax dollars if it were up to me...