Locals say rules could dry up fishing business | SeacoastOnline.com

From Maine to San Diego to Alaska. We soon will be saying goodbye to most small fishing organizations, courtesy of hacks (politicians) and junk science. Is this "change we can believe in"?

She said she fears new federal regulations, which take effect May 1, will have a crippling economic impact on fisheries and fisherman all across New England.

"Some guys are already leaving (the business)," Eastman said. "They don't have to wait until May 1. They already know they can't make a living."

Locals say rules could dry up fishing business | SeacoastOnline.com

TRUTH: Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement?

The 2009 film takes up the struggle between the fishing industry and government regulation. Town Dock fishermen and others across the Northeast have said increasingly strict regulations designed to rebuild fish stocks have not only dramatically reduced the number of days they can fish and how much they can land but are putting boats out of business.

Among the fishermen featured in Truth is Sig Hansen, the Seattle-based captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern. Hansen has appeared frequently in the documentary television series Deadliest Catch.

TRUTH: Fishing Crisis or Government Mismanagement?

Is Obama climate change policy in violation of the First Amendment?

The American Thinker makes a great point. And I'd like to be the 1st to connect the global warming scam (aka anthropological global warming), with what the NMFS and NOAA have been doing to the commercial fishing industry.

"There can be little doubt that man-made global warming activists exhibit all of the characteristics of those promoting a religion."

"with the notion of such "settled science" thoroughly discredited, President Obama and the high priests and priestesses of his Environmental Protection Agency continue the federal government's effort to establish climate change control based only on faith impervious to logic or reason."

Who is fact checking the scientists at NMFS? Each other? What a joke that is. How much taxpayer money are we flushing down a toilet on this bogus science?

Is Obama climate change policy in violation of the First Amendment?

Fishermen's Finest Inc. v. Locke

You know you are in for a world of hurt when your future rests in the hands of a career hack backroom deal loving poltician...

In this case, Fishermen’s Finest, Inc., North Pacific Fishing, Inc., and U.S. Fishing, LLC, (Fishermen’s) appeal from the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce. Fishermen’s challenges the Secretary’s issuance of a final rule adopting Amendment 85 (A85) to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAIMA).

In its conclusion, the majority ruled, t]he Secretary is allowed, under [controlling precedent], to sacrifice the interest of some groups of fishermen for the benefit as the Secretary sees it of the fishery as a whole.'

Read the full ruling here