DMF

[tlapinski]

Originally Posted by piemma

Mike, this is what I was referencing:
In 1981 Senator John Chafee (R-RI) became an advocate for striped bass obtaining millions in funding to conduct important research on the dwindling species which led (in 1984) to Representative Gerry Studds' (R-MA) sponsoring the Striped Bass Conservation Act in the House.Mar 8, 2018

But NONE of it would have gotten legs had there not been the public health concern (high levels of mercury if I remember correctly.) The powers that be didn't do it for the bass, they did it for the humans who were too stupid to stop eating poisonous meat.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by tlapinski

But NONE of it would have gotten legs had there not been the public health concern (high levels of mercury if I remember correctly.) The powers that be didn't do it for the bass, they did it for the humans who were too stupid to stop eating poisonous meat.

In the Hudson, it was PCBs from an old GE plant on the river. NY version of DMF came up with some ludicrous "demarcation" line based on some half-assed theory that Hudson fish didn't migrate past a line drawn from Wading River to Smith Point, so there was no commercial fishing allowed west of that line. It was done to allow Billy Joel's favorite persecuted gang, the East End Baymen, to continue commercial harvest.