Re: This made me sick to watch
always tough to watch things like this, but you have to understand.. the rules that make this guy dump 4 totes of large fluke overboard dead discard, also prevent him and the rest of the fleet from dialing in on them, and hammering them for sale at market.
very similiar to the bluefin/longline issue at the moment.
which is worse, the wastefulness of discarding thousands of pounds of beautiful big bluefin every season, or a longline industry that is allowed to sell them, and home in their sets on the bluefin grounds instead of picking them up as bycatch when surface longlining for swordfish and yellowfin.
I'd rather have the dead discards.
I believe in small govt, but I also know there is nothing easy about regulating fisheries. And I think the bluefin, swordfish, striped bass and fluke situations are much better now, then they were when gov't just stayed out of it.
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