It should not be a popularity event. Stop asking how this effects one user group or the other and simply do what is right for the resource. Let the chips fall where they may. It is not that hard. Simply do the right thing... All we know is what they have been doing, and what they are doing now is not working out for anyone...fish or fishermen.
It kills me when they have a public opinion meeting on a proposed restrictive reg. What do they think is going to happen at these meetings? Then, after years of playing with quotas, tweaking numbers and how everything is computed, they will deem that the fishery is in trouble.
You watch what happens with SB in the next few years...the fishery is in a death spiral.
I'll have to pick this up when I get back....going fishing in the Keys for a few days. Peace.
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