Poor Distraught Fishermen Are Attempting Suicide After One Year of Obama Job-Killing Regulations

GatewayPundit ^ | 5/10/11 | Jim Hoft

[SanFranDan]

East Coast fishermen say the new Obama job-killing regulations are killing the industry. Poor distraught fishermen are attempting suicide.

WMUR reported:

Fishermen on New Hampshire’s Seacoast are warning that new fishing regulations could destroy their industry and have already caused them severe emotional stress.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has sent a team to Seabrook to look at the effects of the new regulations.

“If they don’t do something to modify the fishing regulations, we won’t have a fishing industry on the Seacoast, is what it boils down to,” said Hampton Town Manager Fred Welch.

Many in the fishing industry said they want the federal team to do more than its stated task of creating an economic development assessment report. The team is spending three days in Seabrook and visiting five other New England fishing towns…

…“One of the fishermen from Rye had said that there had been three suicide attempts and a half dozen divorces during this first year of catch-shares,” said Bob Campbell of the Yankee Fisherman’s Cooperative. “Commercial fishermen are usually pretty tight-lipped, and for something this serious to come out, I mean, you know that the whole situation is grave.”

Campbell said the cooperative has lost about $750,000 in business since the new regulations went into effect.

“We’re off 1.1 million pounds of fish from last year, and over a million and a half pounds from the year before,” he said.

[Red Badger]

Hey, they got what they voted for........

[Major Matt Mason]

I'm sure Obama would view this as a success.

[Olog-hai]

Way too reminiscent of the EU’s fisheries policies.

[Dogbert41]

Obama the Destroyer.

[fr_freak]

Rather than committing suicide, these guys should be preparing to take back the USA. If they are willing to die, anyway, at least go out in a blaze of glory.

[mjp]

toxic side effects of libtard policies

[TaMoDee]

You bet! In Massachewshitts all the fisherman also voted for Obama. Live with it -— SUCKERS!

[boomop1]

Blue state blues.

[combat_boots]

Well, think of all the estate taxes for redistribution 0bama will get for the ‘hood.

Who in DC ACTUALLY cares about working Whites anyway?

[AAABEST]

Maobama is just doing what lefties do - attempt to choke America out of the natural resources we need to live our lives.

There's not a natural resource that the left doesn't want to deprive us of - fossil fuels, lumber, fishing, farming, land, mining - you name it. Yet they have no problem with countries like China, Brazil, Cuba etc. stepping in to fill the void.

[omega4179]

They vote Democrat because they don’t want drilling rigs, then Democrats regulate them out of existence for Gaia.

[1010RD]

“Obama! What is best in life?”

Obama: “To crush capitalism, derive poverty before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”

[RitaOK]

An ACT OF WAR by any other. An impeachable offense by our own. Living with Crickits.

[SueRae]

From the comments section of the article...

“If only there was a GOP candidate whose family understands the commercial fishing business. Oh wait, there is!”

Couldn’t have said it any better.

[Dapper 26]

How’s that CHANGE doing for you?

[Viking2002]

Really. If ya wanna go, do it yelling "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[OldPossum]

Hey, they got what they voted for........

I would agree, but with this caveat, so many people, especially those of limited educational backgrounds, don't vote and just take what they get in the form of governmental control. It's a shame that so few care about who governs them.

[grundle]

Actually, in this particular case, these new regulations are pro-free market. Catch share is a system of allocating tradable property rights to fishing quotas. The purpose of this is to prevent the overfishing that happens when fish are treated as communal property, a problem which is often referred to as "the tragedy of the commons." The mainstream media has done a horrible job of explaining this, but the wikipedia article that I linked to does an excellent job.

[Red Badger]

The old saying still holds. “If you dont vote, dont complain.”.....