re: Do your part to take Marlin of the menu

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was down in Brazil last year Blue Marlin fishing for a week and those bastard long liners were killing the shite out of them, cant believe that shite is allowed to go on


I can't stand long liners. There are quite a few operating out of LA and they kill indiscriminately

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The longline fleet is only about 10% of what is used to be and the whole fin fish business is about 10% of what it used to be also. Commercial boats cannot even use live bait now and because of that their catch has decreased a lot.

And recreational fisherman catch lots of tuna and I'm sure a lot of the fish they don't keep die anyway after fighting for as long as they do.

I get pissed off when recreational fisherman bitch and moan about commercial fisherman and how they got all the political pull and catch all the fish. This is coming from someone who's family was in the finfish business for over 20 years and was put out of business due to regulations along with 100's of finfish boats.

Now the recreational fishing business is more than double of what it used to be and they are catching more fish than the commercials and they are still not satisfied. Guess some people want it all or nothing.

There has to be some sort of common ground in this. One group can't be allowed to do all the fishing and the other group not allowed to do it and especially be put out of a livlyhood and tradition. I love to recreationaly fish also but I don't think it's right to shut down a whole industry. All these regulations that have been put in place in the US has only allowed the imported seafood market to thrive.