[metalman]

done my "reading" bub, born,raised, spent most of my life within a short walk to the salt water, known fisherman all my life, friends worke boats, and took jobs as "fisheries observers" in Canadian waters,and I respect most of them, but I also know all about draggers and how in the boom years the Captain would hand the boys there checks as the came off the boat, and the coke dealer standing right next to the captain, would get them to sign them right over, and the total fucked up mayhem surrounding all that, 1 in a hundred end up with anything to show for it. How the gangs have pet drunks who "own" a lobster licence but or course there are a stack of signed documents in a lawyers safe if they get uppity. Dont pretend that it's a decent business, managed,sustainable, or anything but a race to the bottom. If we were talking about the inshore fishery from before diesel engines, and powered winches, that was self regulated and seasonal, then it would be a different discussion, but as one inshore fisherman put it "there's no hungry fish to bite the hooks" we all know it's precarious at best, and NO ONE will be surprised much if the whole thing collapses for real.

[jmpetroske]

Alright bub, I guess the dying Canadian fisheries you have second-hand experience with are exactly representative of everything that’s going on. I’m glad we can give up looking into why fish aren’t doing well, now that you figured it out.