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Originally Posted by MakoMike
From what I have been reading there are plenty of fish down there, but they are all in the EEZ where no one is supposed to fish for them, and the CG has notified everyone that they intend to strictly enforce the ban of striper fishing in the EEZ.
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This argument gets so old, and so phony.
There are "plenty" of rhinos in the game reserves of Kenya. That doesn't mean the population is healthy and those animals should be killed.
The isolated presence of fish in protected areas serves only to emphasize the dire lack of a healthy population and the need for more widespread protection elsewhere. Unless one's motivation is financial, of course, in which case one makes up a myth about the lack of bait inshore, pretends the fish have to be offshore (even though such a situation never existed in the past), and uses it to rationalize that we should have access to them.
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