[Billfish715]

I'm confused about just why a government (federal) agency has to be involved in all of this. Are they trying to protect the fish? Do the fish now belong to the government? If they stayed out of all of this, would we wipe out every fluke in the ocean? If they were afraid of a total species decimation, how long would it take to happen? It reminds me of the fear mongers who would have us believe the world is ending due to climate change. Or, are they protecting us? Can anyone please explain this to me?

For whom are the limits being set and why? Are they set so there will be fish in the future for us? Isn't now the future that the limits were set to protect by the government so many years ago? How well did those past regulations work out for us now? What do we have to show for it? We have more regulations by a government agency to replace the regulations that the same government agency told us would protect our fishery if we abided by the rules. Could they have been wrong?

Did anyone hear or read an admission by anyone in any of the agencies that their previous regulations failed to meet their goals. Could they ever be wrong?
If they are, they will never admit it. All they do is adjust their quotas and bag and size limits and are never evaluated. Besides, who would evaluate them? Does that work where you work? Try being wrong time after time. NOAA is the same agency which predicts our weather. Are they ever fired for their mistakes? They are funded by our taxes and yet they tell us what to do!

Do you think politicians will interfere with the operations of a government agency? Do you think any of our state representatives will evaluate the body of work of the people who propose the regulations? Of course they won't because the politicians voted on the regulations. If Palone or any of his cronies were to chastise or criticize the government regulators, they would be criticizing themselves because they put the regulations into law.

This all smells of the excrement of bulls.