The only reason that they are starting to take these steps is because they have fished the stocks down already.They know it is unsustainable.Man kind always does this.If there is a lot of money involved we rape it then we talk about doing the right thing and then finally just before it is too late we start to do something about it.The people that are in charge of these things understand only one thing money.How much money was spent on getting the president elect in office.

There is a huge amount of money involved with these fisheries.I made money every year during A season.Our target was Pollock.Just like the chum salmon,the real target was the roe not the fillets.I can not remember the numbers any more but the gov had to mandate that we came back to port with a certain percentage of meat versus roe.Other wise we would of thrown the carcasas overboard and only kept top grade roe.And some still did.Called it high grading.Huge amounts (millions of tons) were tossed overboard to feed the crabs because the asians did not consider it top grade.tHEY HAVE DONR THE SAME THING WITH THE CHUM SALMON.Money talks [censored] walks.In this case the [censored] is anything that gets in the way of the money.

When are the sportsmen going get passed there emotions and reelize that it is not just the tribes or the small fisheries off our coast or Cali's or AK but the entire commercial industry united.we are talking Norway Japan China just to take a few off the top.billions of dollars. Like everything else big nothing will change until the folks on top,with the money see that they have to change.Just like with the auto industry.They make there money and then get out with there piece of the pie and the needed change begins to happen.Unfortunately it never happens until the resource is in shambles