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Originally Posted by PaulS
The difference is you are blaming the recreational fishermen without taking into account the % of each sector. If recreational fishermen are 99% of fisherman then they should be killing 99% of the fish.
Make it a game fish and a some of the problems are solved. Not all the problems but some of them.
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It isn't a 1:1 kind of thing. If commercials are 1% of fisherman, they are catching for 1000's of other people. I guess it comes down to whether the fish, as a resource, should only be available to the person who is able/interested in catching it himself.
The spirit of Mako's original post is that some recs are quick to blame the commercial guys for the population problems and the data does not support that.
I think gamefish status reduces the harvest by more than 10%, but it wouldn't end poaching. It would be nearly impossible to police whether a restaurant is serving an illegally harvested or farm raised fish. Better that then what we have now, I suppose.
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