Kind of makes you wonder, who benefits from blaming resource depletion on climate change.

Its a simplistic observation. These people harvest to sell food. As long as the demand for food, is higher than the supply, then the resource will suffer. Some of you have seen the harvest graph on Columbia river salmon between 1865 thru the late 1800 and early 1900.
It went nearly vertical for ten years give or take and then began to drop off until the introduction of hatcheries and other species of salmon.

The only thing we have done is procreate and sell more and more seafood. Fish farms were written about in the early 70's as a possible solution to seafood demand. Now we have sardines being harvest to feed tuna hatchery operations in Australia. Whether its the Grand Banks cod fishery, the lobsterman, deadliest catch or swordfish, the fight isnt about allocation. Its about food supply. Either way, sportfishing is losing to the multiple vendors and downstream beneficiaries of boats, nets, bait, processing equipment, packaging equipment, trucking, of every building and every contractor needed to make the buildings. That doesnt include the tax revenue at every level. We can run out of fish, before we run out of oil. When govts begin a undercover program to kill seals, you'll know, seafood supplies wont feed the people.

As you know there are more farms since the 70's and we have side effects in the form of sealice on wild smolts that wander by the net pens. They kill smolts. In addition there are ecological costs from fish waste. Meanwhile our native runs arent coming back.

Until we find new ways to produce egg row, and fish meat for the world population seafood market, we will continue to take a back seat to commercial harvest and we will lose the allocation fights and our resource in the long run. I personally think, that unless the demand for food is solved, the CCA wins in 15 other states will not only be under pressure from Federal intervention, the Feds will unravel much of the gains.

How many people know, that the federal government told commercial fisherman, they would buy the commercial fishermen a new net, if they get hung up on the underwater phone line that goes to Europe, in the Atlantic. Of course anyone with a lick of sense would just say that area is a MPA, or off limits. But not our feds.