Assault on fishing rights

[riverdog]

Ocean, I'd agree it's funny except some folks fall for this stuff. I'll repeat my first thoughts when I looked at the issues- pure paranoid speculation. I almost brought up the bluefin tuna fishery. U.S. sets some conservation limits in the Atlantic trying to increase size and numbers while the Mediterranean countries basically don't. Problem is new research shows these extremely valuable fish actually travel back and worth from our east coast to the Mediterranean region. So those countries are not only hurting our efforts to improve this fishery but the only reason it's even maintained at all in their region is because of our efforts. Those fish can be worth thousands or ten of thousands dollars each so our fisherman are getting screwed big time by other countries short sighted approach. Of course the Mediterranian fisherman is just as likely to believe the science and voluntarily act on it as a Texas oilman is going to believe in global warming and voluntarily act on it.
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