[tet68]

No,not an outright ban, but I find it somewhat galling when sport fishermen are prevented from fishing while commercial interests continue.

Of course I want to see oil drilling in the gulf too.

[Zon]

I think nobody should be banded from fishing. To be kind, it's irrelevant that commercial fishing operations can fish. It's not the government's place to decide who can or cannot fish. Same for oil drilling.

"Government intervention into peaceful, private activity -- free association wherein any or all parties are free to walk away -- will make things worse rather than better.

"Any government agency that is a value to the people and society could better serve the people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance."56