[bksanders]

CEW - Where did I leave the impression this was a "simple" issue?
Simple issues are the ones where I can call you a name / epithet and you reciprocate, getting us nowhere, gaining no ground.
The "good ol' boys in NC want to see to it that they alone can make MONEY of the "recreational fish". The fish ain't "theirs alone" to make money offin'!
Leave the damn "commercial fishermen" the hell alone. The GOP'er can take their good ol' boy out-of-state invitees on snipe hunting expeditions. They sicken me.
These are the types that pay thousands of dollars to "hunt" a deer that has been fed and fenced.
This is NOT a right/left issue until you consider the governmental extraction of ones rights. That, my friend, is a leftist paragon.
So the good ol' boys want less gubmit until gubmit intervention can help fill their pockets.

97% of "the people" beg for nothing…

"The commercial fishing industry will have to evolve to a more farm based industry…

So the gubmit can say "where" the farm is and subsidize it?
Society needs to "devolve" into a self-sufficient people…

[C. Edmund Wright]

You did not indicate it was that simple, but some other posters did. I simply responded to you as the OP.

I do think that part of your premise is flawed - in that it is fine to “leave the commercial fishermen the hell alone” when the commercial fishermen are not acting on “their” property. Were the commercial guys using their own resources, then the conservative position would be to leave them the hell alone.

That is not the case with the fisheries. This is why it is not a clear liberal conservative issue and cannot be. The fisheries are in fact owned by the sports guys just as much as by the commercial guys and actually by all of us as much as any of us.

Commercial fishing has the potential to ruin the fishery for everybody forever, which will then ruin the value of coastal properties for everybody forever. This is a fact.