Originally Posted By: Slab Happy
Keeping nets out of the salt would cure evils of many varieties......and perhaps force other solutions to supplying the world's fish appetite. But it ain't gonna happen because it is not even close to cost effective....not even here in the land of free money trees.



Neither is spending 8 billion on recovery. Eliminating distant fisheries in favor of terminal fisheries doesnt mean one less fish for the market. It shifts the harvest from one place to another, that's it , that's all. Actually, it might increase the amount of fish for market, if we indeed harvest more hatchery fish and less protected fish.