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Originally Posted by bulletbob
Got it,, I can accept that... I was'nt trying to be a prick toward Blackfish Doug.. Just expressing my feelings that if the commercial guys are struggling, there are other options for hard working, resourceful guys.. If they stick it out year after year, they MUST be making money,. In this day and age, in a modern cosmopolitan place like NJ, I don't buy the "love of the sea" thing.. A man[or woman] has to eat and pay bills, for himself and his family. These guys are scraping the sea bottom to death because there is still money in it.. If there really isn't money in it, and they are going broke, they really can't be very bright... bob
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Bob I don't think that you were being a prick to me. Just that it hit me at home when you made the statement about how good the job market was out there & it's not. When I first lost my Job everybody told me the same thing you were saying go to home depot,Lowes etc. I don't know if you noticed lately not as many older people are being hired there anymore.They have guidelines to the amount of people in the age group they have to hire.Also the hours that are being given out are not enough just so they don't have to offer you the medical benefits, paid holidays plus vacation.This practice is going on in a lot of company's that hire the entry level employees. The older you get the less opportunity is out there. Age discrimination is going going on in a major way now. Most of the people who work in my age group are doing it to make up for the supplemental insurance we have to pay for & that's not cheap. I know that there is money in the commercial fishing industry. But it's not as great as people think & the people in the middle are the people making the money not the actual people who catch the fish. Some of what I don't like is the pinhooking for Fluke. The 14" Fluke was meant for the offshore Fluke fishery not the inshore rod & reel commercial fishery. The pinhookers can release 14" Fluke to live another day. I believe the inshore fishery should be the same as ours. If we can only keep 18" fish for rod & reel they should as well. I'm not in favor of the abuse in that industry as well. But there are plenty of fish for everyone to share these days. It's the regulations that are hurting everyone plus the areas we no longer can fish in that hold the fish. Here in the great USA we have no go zones for fisherman something that I guess were going to have get used to.
