Originally Posted By: Hair

Sustainable fisheries (which is in no way dishonest or misleading) can be accomplished using (and/or including) options other than reducing harvest and hatchery production. We are not bound by your narrow opinion to achieve solutions. "Solutions". The plural version.

How did we get there with cars Todd? We improved the engines for increased efficiency, the bodies for less resistance, made the fuel cleaner to reduce emissions, better tires, better design from top to bottom. Sure we could have reduced the number of cars, or blocked off roads, and yes it would have saved fuel or the environment. But it wouldn't have been sustainable now would it? Neither is a future dependent on reduced harvest and reduced hatchery production. Ideally, I'd like the solutions to have the same effect as reductions, and I think it's possible if we don't limit ourselves to narrow minded approaches.


If you want to look at this as an anaology to cars, look at it this way...the problem we're trying to prevent is the problem that cars with no steering wheels and no brakes tend to go off the road and slam into telephone poles, killing those in the car...unfortunately, the solution we're talking about here, following the analogy, is to try and solve that problem by putting a cool license plate holder on the back...looks cool, but doesn't even approach the problem, much less solve it.

Originally Posted By: SBD
Whats funny is that an idea or angle to get more allocation away from the commercials has now turned into a (bowel) movement.


The problem, SBD, is that the entire point of the commercials going selective is exactly the opposite of what you just wrote...the entire point is to put more hatchery fish in the totes on the decks of the commercial fleet...not less.

Fish on...

Todd
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