The ability of technological decimation of Alaska salmon fisheries is plain. Even before the rise of high-tech electronic fish finders the salmon population had crashed a few times from over-fishing with traps. As it is today sports and subsistence fishermen, fisherwomen and fishertransgenders get far too little of the catch left over after the commercial deep-pockets fleet has taken the lion's share, and that just isn't fair.
King salmon stocks are severely strained from over-fishing and invasive species such as Northern Pike brought to Alaska from Minnesota that aggressively killed young salmon in Alaskan rivers. Scientists have stocked salmon ocean migrations with technology and discovered that they go as far north as the Bering Sea in search of cooler waters. It is expensive for subsistence and sports fishermen to travel far in the state to catch some food to eat, while commercial fishermen with cheap gas move themselves and their nets about to cull the health and population out of the beaten-down King salmon. Even the lowly chum salmon is kicked about by commercial fishermen that leave as little as possible for anyone else.
Subsistence fishing should have 25% of the possible catch of all fish and sports fishing 25%. No more than 50% of the fish in the sea should go to concentrated power and wealth commercial fishing interests. Even though subsistence and commercial fishing may allow greater escapement of fish to spawn and rebuild the population since they are not trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel for the benefit of the rich; that is subsistence and sports-fishermen may be content with getting what they need and let natural abundance continue, the commercial fishing fleet are another sort of egoist dollar sign led horde lusting after the last morsel of fish in the sea for-themselves.
If commercial fishermen are restricted to 50% of the harvest the extra escapement should increase the total of fish overall paradoxically increasing the number of fish that even the commercial fishermen catch. If the take allotment of commercial fishermen were reduced more the increase of harvest should be even greater. That is a supply-side fishinomics policy beyond the simplistic 'kill the fish eating ducks' way of hogging the catch as far as possible.
King salmon stocks are severely strained from over-fishing and invasive species such as Northern Pike brought to Alaska from Minnesota that aggressively killed young salmon in Alaskan rivers. Scientists have stocked salmon ocean migrations with technology and discovered that they go as far north as the Bering Sea in search of cooler waters. It is expensive for subsistence and sports fishermen to travel far in the state to catch some food to eat, while commercial fishermen with cheap gas move themselves and their nets about to cull the health and population out of the beaten-down King salmon. Even the lowly chum salmon is kicked about by commercial fishermen that leave as little as possible for anyone else.
Subsistence fishing should have 25% of the possible catch of all fish and sports fishing 25%. No more than 50% of the fish in the sea should go to concentrated power and wealth commercial fishing interests. Even though subsistence and commercial fishing may allow greater escapement of fish to spawn and rebuild the population since they are not trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel for the benefit of the rich; that is subsistence and sports-fishermen may be content with getting what they need and let natural abundance continue, the commercial fishing fleet are another sort of egoist dollar sign led horde lusting after the last morsel of fish in the sea for-themselves.
If commercial fishermen are restricted to 50% of the harvest the extra escapement should increase the total of fish overall paradoxically increasing the number of fish that even the commercial fishermen catch. If the take allotment of commercial fishermen were reduced more the increase of harvest should be even greater. That is a supply-side fishinomics policy beyond the simplistic 'kill the fish eating ducks' way of hogging the catch as far as possible.
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