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I enjoy fishing ports, call me romantic. I'm against certain forms of commercial fishing--I use to work, back in my early twenties, on a swordfish gillnetter. I made huge money and at the time thought I was king of the world. But the bycatch in that fishery was huge...........................they banned it. That's one; another is big boats, say over 80', dragging trawl nets. I've done this too, again made good money, but the bycatch can also be huge.
I like seeing smaller trawlers and lobsterboats working the water. I wouldn't want to see these boats disappear, call it history or whatever, maybe it's in my blood.
I don't sell fish anymore and instead grow oysters. Oyster farms are great for the water because they filter out the nitrogen and we don't have to feed them. No waste. No ammonia build up; and the cages that we grow them in are home to countless juvenile finfish.
I'm way off the topic here. Just talking
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