"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
Catch your own fish. Or eat beef. Commercial guys rape the waters.



Hmm. So unless a person is wealthy enough to have an offshore fishing
boat similar to something that might be owned by a dentist down in
Naples, FL and the luxury of enough time to use it, he or she should
not be able to eat fish?

Is Mrs. NOYB's name Marie ("let them eat cake") Antoinette? :-)

Consider this: There would be a lot less infrastructure to support
sport fisheries if the same infrastructure couldn't be at least
partially justified as a support for commerce. Commercial and sports
fisheries, properly managed with an eye toward conservation in a
perfect world, should be able to coexist.


It's there, or close, in some places. Read "The Secret Life of Lobsters", in
which officials from the state of Maine, who've never fished for lobsters
attempt to tell lobstermen about conservation, and end up learning that the
lobstermen already had a pretty good system in place to begin with. Now,
they cooperate instead of argue.