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Originally Posted by numbskull
Bull.
Yes the fish belong to everyone.
If the 99.99% of the population was the primary concern the fishery would have been shut down totally a decade ago. No consumer wants to pay $17 a pound for food that better management (i.e., allowing a fishery to recover) would make available for $3 a pound.
The codfishery (and other commercial fisheries) are managed for the benefit of the commercial fisherman......NOT THE PUBLIC. The public pays a cost of billions of dollars in the form of higher food costs as a result of this mismanagement.
Shut the fishery, when the fish are recovered reopen it. If the public came first that is what would happen. The reason it has not happened is because the public does not come first....plain and simple.
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The fallacy of your statement can be demonstrated by one statistic, the U.S.
IMPORTS 70% of our seafood. No matter what the NMFS did, it wouldn't lower prices to the consumer.