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Lionessa

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5. Bullshit! There are more than two choices, hence no rock r hard place.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 02:07 PM

Jan 2013

The industry has known for decades they were over fishing and that stocks were not properly being allowed to replenish themselves. They should have found different jobs and livelihoods by now. IE there shouldn't be so many folks still relying on fishing, but alas we're stupid and continue to do the same things and somehow expect different results.

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New England fishermen face grim vote on cuts [View all] n2doc Jan 2013 OP

Rock And A Hard Place --- Keep Fishing Kill All The Fish - Impose Limits Kill The Fleet TheMastersNemesis Jan 2013 #1

Bullshit! There are more than two choices, hence no rock r hard place. Lionessa Jan 2013 #5

We did what we did, and we are where we are - between a rock cod and a hard plaice... GliderGuider Jan 2013 #10

But killing a fleet isn't a hard place so much, those folks then have other options, killing the Lionessa Jan 2013 #11

I don't understand your point then. GliderGuider Jan 2013 #13

"key stocks are in perilous condition" tblue Jan 2013 #2

Poor health of key fish stocks lunasun Jan 2013 #4

Yeah. Because we're running out of fish up here! I'm sorry but... bunnies Jan 2013 #3

And don't you agree, they have had decades to get it through their thick heads that this was Lionessa Jan 2013 #6

I completely agree... bunnies Jan 2013 #8

The fisheries collapse in Newfoundland should have been a giant clue. friendly_iconoclast Jan 2013 #7

Yep. This is what greed does. nt bunnies Jan 2013 #9

"Greed" is doing it all - not just the fisheries. GliderGuider Jan 2013 #12