Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02

I heard it the same way, Doc. I'm not so jaded as to suspect that Co-Management was designed with the intent of eliminating management accountability for the resource, but I do believe that's what it's done. Without accountability, nobody gets penalized when the rules get violated or the fish get overfished. Absent any repercussion, we can just shrug and blame ocean conditions, then get back to the business of planning next year's slaughter.


And doing the business of agreeing to next years slaughter and making laws which impact ALL citizens are done in secret meetings, behind locked doors so WE cannot object, since we have no idea what the laws will be until the deals are done!

We believe cracking that secrecy is the first and most vital step in getting all the ugly crap of our fisheries out in the open. Only then can we, in mass, start working to fix some of these problems.
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