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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski
NOAA has a $5.5 Billion budget in 2015. You'd think with that sort of money they would be able to invest in some better science.
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5.5 billion, sure that sounds like a lot of money...but compared to what? Compared to social services? Compared to military spending?
Science funding (which includes the NOAA, and NASA) is 3% of our federal budget. Fisheries is not even among NOAA's top priorities. NOAA funding is shrinking, not growing. Let's try to keep some perspective here because in the scheme of things, 5 billion is a drop in the bucket.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.... If someone in the government is getting paid to manage the fisheries, what do you thing they are going to do? Say nothing is wrong and leave a fishery alone?? No, they are going to over manage the fishery to justify their jobs and next year's budget.
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Where do you get this idea that people lose their jobs/budget if they leave regs the same from year to year?
Fluke is the same as last year, how many jobs were lost?
We agree that there's a problem with fisheries management, but we're definitely not agreeing on the actual problems. Simplifying the issue to "big government" is beyond useless as a starting point; it's utterly nonsensical. It does not apply.
