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GliderGuider

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13. I don't understand your point then.

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #11)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 03:16 PM

Jan 2013

If the fishing fleet dies and the fishers find other things to do, the fleet is still gone, right?

While I agree they should have been making other plans, I have a bit of sympathy for someone who got attached to a multigenerational way of life. It's going to be a wrenching event for them, as it was for the cod fishermen in Newfoundland outports.

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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