[John H K]

That's what happens when you buy all your fish from Japan and all your lumber from Canada...

What the heck are you talking about? Their problem ISN'T that they have plenty of fish around and people aren't buying American fish, it's that the California commercial fishermen wiped out their own fishery and they can look in the mirror if they want to see the cause of their problems.

It's the Japanese buying fish from us,btw, not the other way around...the Japanese wiped out their own fishery before we destroyed ours, and their big money purchases are now helping us wipe out the last of our fish.

[Carry_Okie]

California commercial fishermen wiped out their own fishery and they can look in the mirror if they want to see the cause of their problems.

Do you know that for a fact or are you just shoolting off your mouth? I've got data that says it's the latter. Aquaculture killed the salmon fishing industry. You can't buy diesel for the boat and compete with farmed salmon sold at $1.25 per pound. There was a record salmon run this year. After the Peacific Decadal Oscillation completed its cycle the numbers came back up. Now if we could just get NMFS to do something about overpopulated pinnipeds, mismanaging the hatcheries, and stop messing with the smolt run trying to make Gray Davis look good, the salmon would be doing great.

[I Know Jack]

The Japs,Koreans, Russians etc raped the seas! The japs streched nets miles long and harvested everything they could so point the fingers at them not the American fishermen who had restrictions on them for many many years. I fished in Alaska in the early 50's and I remember the restrictions we had then.