Lubchenco is a PEW Fellow Member - a very prominent one! -- appointed as head of NOAA! It's disgusting, what's going.
They've created the perfect domino effect:
1) Close grouper for one-third of the year (pre-Lubchenco)
2) Close snapper because the stock is low compared to stock estimates based on reported catches from the 1950's and 1960's.
3) Close sea bass because of shifting pressures due to closures of above mentioned
4) Close all bottom fishing because you'll be unable to get a bait to the bottom without catching and harming one of the above mentioned species
And the public doesn't even know what's going on.
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