We have shown them numerous videos, they’ve gotten studies conducted by state agencies… even the feds themselves.
They can cherry pick and throw out what they don’t like.
It was 2006 when the law was changed.
The CCA championed it as our voice against the commercial, evil, overfishing.
“best available data” is determined by the feds, and it is the only standard they have to meet.
It has been challenged in court numerous times unsuccessfully because the court will defer to what the feds determine to be best available. They can come up with any reason to throw aside video, studies or whatever else that show the OPPOSITE of what they came up with using speculation and basically a joke for science.
They constantly tell Congress they lack funding to get better science, but they are still hiring more public outreach personnel. Kim is not the only staffer tasked to calm us down. They have hired 4-5 new employees to help with the public. Meanwhile, science gets worse.
Catch shares are being pushed now so the feds can generate funding by controlling a market for a public resource and not implode as they have rebuilt most of the stocks they were tasked to do. The truth about the fisheries being healthy coming out will mean most of the feds will no longer have jobs.
This is a bi-partisan thing. Obama paid back the green crowd by putting in Lubchenco. Bush paid back folks in Texas by signing off on what the CCA / oil companies wanted.
Less commercial fishermen on the water means easier control and less folks to pay when there’s a spill. Less folks means concentrated resource allotment, a la deadliest catch crabs, of which the nature conservancy now owns the most shares for and actually PROFITS off the fishermen still in the game by trading the shares like stocks.
All this is what we have been saying for 1,000’s of posts for the past 5 years, but some of you still want to keep your head in the sand. What’s worse, some of you continue to not recognize who the real enemies are and you co
