Re:current trends (Score 1)

This could be true for some small parts of the very huge ocean. But actually our boats are going out and catching all their quotas in a few hours. One delivery this week was 62,000 lbs. for 36 hours. Our captains spend most of their time golfing because the total boat numbers are down (have you ever heard of buyback?) and the "regime change" has brought all kinds of food back to our coast - the lovely northwest of the United States. The fish stocks that were supposed to take 100 years to come back, have taken 4 years to rebuild. Check out the increased quotas in many areas for next year. By the way, some rivers have less salmon, but the one right here by my town is filled with salmon and has been for about the last 5 years. Does anybody hear about that? It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that the people who scream no fish are in it for the money, research money, that is. Oh and by the way, do you really think antidotal evidence of fishing by the pier has anything to do with what is going on out in the open ocean? Try looking at some actual footage of bottom trawling and the thousands of pounds of fish that are out there, before you talk about a couple of guys that can't find fish. We also fish tiny shrimp, which is a sustainable resource with managment, and special nets that let out the by-catch. And when we catch crab, we take only the males, by law, so that the 4 year cycles keep right on producing crab. So you see, it is not all about fishing everything to extinction. Fish will be around longer than cows. There is a lot more ocean.