ASMFC science

[frugalfisherman]

Reminds me of the old story about the constipated mathematician. He worked it out with a pencil. One less for fisherman=one more for draggers.

[Blackfish Doug]

That's because this is the way they do math makes sense to them.

https://youtu.be/MS2aEfbEi7s

[tautog]

Shut up peasants. It is the best available science. When you hire people to regulate, they will give you regulations.

[Gerry Zagorski]

When you hire people to regulate, they will give you regulations.

EXACTLY!! And when you hire the Government to regulate you also create a massive, bureaucratic machine that can't be stopped. And, to add insult to injury, they use our hard earned tax dollars to perpetuate the hole system to work against us.

Point in case, look at the Maine Lobster industry.... They police themselves with government over site in a co-management scenario with the state. https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/8845/ConservatSoc11160-4839384_132633.pdf?sequence=1