Posted on 12/01/2011 9:41:54 AM PST by george76
Maine’s congressional delegation is supporting Gov. Paul LePage’s request seeking a federal fisheries disaster declaration to provide aid to Maine’s groundfishing fleet.
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His request followed a recent report documenting a sharp decline in Maine’s fishing fleet due to changes in federal fishery management plans.
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Am I reading this right??
Maine wants Fed disaster relief, for a disaster caused by a Fed agency??
Cue the “Twilight Zone” music - Rod Serling’s waiting just off-camera....
UN Agenda 21 killing jobs as expected
Please...big government mucked up the fishing regs so why would they be interested in fixing them? The Regime has a choke hold on all of America.
You read correctly.
Last week it was John Kerry asking for the same thing for the same reasons in Massachusttes.
You read correctly.
Last week it was John Kerry asking for the same thing for the same reasons in Massachusttes.
NOAA under Lubchenko has been killing the commercial and recreational fishery industry in New England ,Mid-Atlantic , South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and the West Coast . They control the species , seasons , length of harvest seasons , and size of fish harvested . They have already bankrupted the New England fishery.
Appeals to the Secretary of Commerce,who controls NOAA , have been unresponsive . Incidently , the current Secty. of Commerce comes to us from the World Wildlife Federation.
The attack is right now for salt water fisheries ; wait until next year when they get into freshwater fisheries .
Congress even defunded certain NOAA programs and directed them to NOT IMPOSE “Catch Shares” , and they went ahead anyways through their ( hand picked ) “regional counsels” and imposed the program .
UN Agenda 21 is Socialist infiltration of the New World Order , all under the guise of protecting our food supplies , and protecting the envireonment .
This is at least the second overt attack of NWO (New World Order) into American food and protein .
No - they are not overfished !! They are OVER REGULATED !!
NOAA Fisheries determines the season , species , size harvested , etc. . Even the location of where you can fish .
They opened offshore Grouper fishing in Florida during the heart of the “Hurricane Season” .
They arbitrarily and capriciously closed the “red snapper” in the Mid and South Atlantic .. without ever having conducted a study !! (Admitted to it last year in a Congressional hearing on the Stevens-Magneson Act - available on U-tube )
Its such a layup from Farmers, fisherman,ObamaCare and death tax so their buddies like Buffett clean the carcasses after the Government kills them.
Why be concerned about over-regulation ?
Let me quote:Captain Dale Perkins, an expert on the American red snapper in Florida , who has recently resigned his position to the advisory panel to the NOAA Gulf Council .
Per Captain Perkins, “The whole process is a charade as evidenced by the fact that they schedule meetings to take out input and then go ahead and make decisions without even holding the meeting.
I am not going to lend false legitimacy to this charade by allowing my name to be used on a so called committee that has no input.
No matter what the data shows, it is always interpreted as a need to reduce Total Allowable catch (TAC).
If we are catching to few fish, they say reduce the quota. If we catch too many fish, reduce the quota.
The fish are too big, reduce the quota.
The fish are too small, reduce the quota.”
There , enough said !!
For centuries past ,wars have been fought over fishery as a protein source.
Sure don’t do anything , or say anything until it hits your pocketbook ~ .. and then it will be too late !!
“They (Governor of maine , both Senators) say between 2009 and 2010, there was a 33 percent decline in the number of Maine-based boats that made money from fishing for haddock, cod, flounder and other so-called groundfish.” This year it will be even more severe as few remaining boats can operate at a loss.
If you don’t think this will affect your pocketbook , wait until next year when the price of meat ( cow /lamb/ pork/ sheep / erc ) goes sky-high . Most farmers have sold off most of their breeding stock due to floods , drought, then more floods and huricane winds .
With no feed crops , and rising corn prices due to ethanol , they couldn’t afford to keep their stock . You will find out financially next year ; then fishery will be at a premium price.
They will be American fish , caught by foreign company that bought up “catch shares” from bankrupt boats , processed offshore in foreign ships , and then imported into the US , and sold and distributed by foreign nationals who have already bought up American companies.
And then we wonder why the National Debt keeps rising ?
And then we wonder why food is so expensive ?
(P.S.) For those of you who like Snow Crab from Alaska , be advised that over 71 % of the Snow Crab “catch shares” controlled by NOAA , are already foreign owned )
They’ll only take my fishing rod from my cold, dead hands.
The information you provide is very much appreciated by me and many other FReepers.
Thanks for the ping, George!
FReepmail coming your way -- duck!
Well said
In Connecticut, the lobster fleet used to be at about 1K, now it’s down to 80 boats. There’s a disease in LIS..talk is they are going to close LIS to lobstering for 5 years.
From above :
71 % of the Snow Crab “catch shares” controlled by NOAA , are already foreign owned
Likely , similar results around the country and soon only Obama campaign cash bundlers will be granted licenses ?
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