Commercial fishermen not getting subsidized like soil farmers (tobacco, wheat, soybean, corn)??? Are you joking? What do soil farmers do with their subsidies? They buy equipment and plant crops. What do commercial fishermen NOT have to do? They don't have to plant crops. I am sick & f***king tired of people comparing "commercial netters" to "farmers"... they are NOT farmers, they are MINERS... they simply mine the resources that are out there, or that are PUT out there by our government.

Commercial fishermen in this state (WA) have lobbied the state government and made it extremely difficult & expensive to start aquaculture farms here. I don't think they'd be receptive to the idea of becoming farmers at all.

-N.