[C. Edmund Wright]

You make some good points, which is why I said, numerous times, that it is not a pure argument either way. It is also why I said IMO - meaning I was leaving room for the debate.

Your argument, however, is extremely weak in that you say the answer is to leave it alone. The fact sir is that fishing is getting worse and worse and worse every year for both the commercial and the sports guys. Left alone, we won’t have either industry for much longer and then the entire tourism and real estate industries on the coast will further collapse, and then we are all screwed.

Leaving it alone is not a viable answer. I wish it were.

[Beagle8U]

There are really three different groups in the argument over the fishery. Well, if you separate out the enviro-nazi’s and the government.

Sport fishermen, sport charter captains, and commercial fishermen.

I don't put the sport charters in the same category as sport fishermen because they are also selling a product, their services.