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Originally Posted by Finaddict
... a little over 10 years ago, the company I was working for had us up for a meeting with the publisher of the National Fishermen magazine up in Portland, ME. The conversation turned to a discussion about the fate of the US commercial fleet ... as it was just after the US Federal Govt. imposed regulations for limiting how much time the US commercial fleet could spend on the fishing grounds before they came back to weigh-in their catch ... meanwhile there were no regulations on the significantly larger, foreign factory ships fishing and freezing far more fish than the US fleet was able to take - ships from Poland, Korea, Japan, etc., were left untouched in international waters and even fishing illegally in US federal waters.
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Just to point out the obvious, there have been NO foreign flagged vessels fishing in the U.S. EEZ (from shore to 200 miles out) since 1977.
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