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Originally Posted by Saba Slayer
THE WHOLE DAMN THING SMACKED OF THE MLPA process and left me with a bad taste for the whole DFW political system...no one argued the commercial reg changes except the commercial guys, yet all the LAC felt they had to jump on the hoop netters and help reduce our effort or numbers....
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Yeah the whole thing is like a sick joke. The commercials take more then ever before to satisfy their new huge market exporting to China. The DFW get's concerned that they are being over harvested. They stack the Lobster advisory committee with with people that want to cut back consumption. They then bring up the red herring of the commercialization of the recreational fishery, paint us as the bad guys, while the Commercials are presented as playing by the rules even though their take is up and they are shipping our lobsters out of the country, and then at the last minute divide the few recs on the committee by getting the divers to support bans on hoop nets.
Commercials get preferential treatment because they are for profit business. Divers get preferential treatment because the Enviro's like the idea of Eco Dive tourism. Every single proposal targets recs but most of them directly target hoonetters, and that is what happened because that was what they wanted from the start.