And we all forget the one commercial net fact that goes unaccouted for. The Russian, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese that go uncontested into our waters and take salmon every year that are never counted but show up in every fish market in Asia in huge numbers.
Todd will agrue it is not a huge impact, but I go to these fish markets many times every year and is a jaw dropper how many fish EVERY day show up in these markets and are gone in hours to the highest bidder. Not one of these fish makes it to any kind of tally that America sees.
It is open season up there and no one cares about the foreign fleets anymore. Even the Russians are bitching now about the Chinese and Koreans in their waters!
I was just in China and they had a front page article about a 2 mile net they found that they said was from Japan but who really knows? It showed the government guys cutting it up with sissors for the media.
They are all guilty over there.