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Originally Posted by Ilikebigbutts
I support MLPA. why don't you?
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Hummmmmm, first post.
Okay it's obvious, but I will bite anyway. 1st and foremost, the recreational catch is statistically insignificant. As such, there is not a need to regulate it, with the exception of species such as abalone, due to their reproductive requirements. The science utilized, was not actually science, it was conjecture falsely presented as science. But by far, most importantly, if you want to increase a species, you need to be sure there is an ample food supply (what we generally refer to as bait). But in-fact, what has happened is that they have increased the harvest rate of the food supply; increased commercial opportunity (predatory species), while decreasing recreational opportunity. The fact is that our fishery is a public resource, however, the regulations passed down through this process, have further opened the flood gates to increase commercial catches, which by the way, the vast majority are shipped off to an unlimited overseas market. In other words, the overseas market wants to purchase much much more than they already are; their demand is literally limitless. This overseas market has already depleted many fisheries around the world, they are only beginning in ours.