Found this in the Tribune today:

Commercial Fisherman (Corporate) Welfare

Here's a quote that I have a problem with - it references the theory that with less boats on the water the limits per boat will be higher with less competiton:

Quote:
"If you have fewer vessels running up against limits throughout the year, that's going to help," said Jim Hastie, fishery analysis program director with the National Marine Fisheries Service's science center in Seattle.

With each vessel allowed to catch more fish, he said, "there will be less need for them to fish each trip limit right up to the edge."
You and I both know that they will continue to fish right up to, and beyond I'm sure, the edge of the limit. It's pure and simple corporate greed.

The only bright side to this act of welfare is that with less boats on the water perhaps enforcement of the limits on targeted and bycatch might be easier and more effectively conducted.
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