[nerdponx]

And this is the irony of short-termist policy making. By blocking reforms in order to maintain some localized status quo, you are very often dooming the future of that localized status quo. Instead, you should be planning ahead to scale it down or transition out of it entirely, and attempting to help people make that transition smoothly over the course of a generation. Ultimately it's just another form of greed and selfishness: "my desires today are more important than your needs tomorrow."

[throwaway2037]

Yes, and never once did any of these owner-operator fisherpeople say: "Hey, we might be overfishing. Let's fish less." In my whole life, it is 100% opposition to any quotas. They are fishing themselves into poverty. It is bizarre. The future is aquaculture for 90+% of what we eat from the oceans/rivers/lakes.

[Firmwarrior]

Has anyone figured out how to make aquaculture sustainable? Last I checked it was so bad that it was actually worse than catching wild fish

[NoGravitas]

It depends on the species. "Sustainably farming carnivores" is not a thing that actually exists on land or sea, and a lot of people's favorite fish are carnivores. Herbivores like tilapia could often be raised on agricultural waste, but in practice are raised on corn and soy.