" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
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I am starting a new thread on commercial fishing as it was taking on a life
of its own from Tom's thread.

In the Great Lake commercial fishermen take 64 million pounds of fish out
annually, with 24.5 million pounds from Lake Erie alone. And those
figures do not include the commercial catch from Canadian waters.
Commercial fishing killed off the blue pike in Lake Erie with that fish
now extinct.

When talking large coastal (sal****er) ports the figures are even more
amazing, with 400 million pounds of fish taken by commercial fishermen out
of Reedville, Virginia.
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/pls/webpls/MF..._YEARP.RESULTS

While it is agreed the we need these guys to supply our markets and
restaurants, how much is too much and how much is being exported?


edit: 400 million pounds, not 400 tons

I also forgot to add the link: http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/commercial/