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To: semper_libertas
Normally, falling catches would drive some fishers out of business. But government subsidies actually encourage overfishing, Watson says, with subsidies totalling about $2.5 billion a year in the North Atlantic.

I had to read a bit to find the problem, but I knew it was the gov'ts fault.

134 posted on 02/18/2002 8:22:49 AM PST by TheDon
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To: TheDon
There weren't no problems with fish before governments now, were there...

(tongue(mine) in cheek(also mine))

141 posted on 02/18/2002 8:43:10 AM PST by semper_libertas
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