well, i've put some thought into my post after i made it and there is a big difference between the fisheries here in south ms than other places. we primarily fish for shrimp and yes there is alot of waste. in other places you have these huge boats (and we have em here but not in great numbers and even though my family shrimps we HATE em) we call em pogy boats. they use spotter planes to find shcools of fish and demolish everything in their path. i can see were they could seriously hurt fisheries. ive seen times where they would show up in an area and within two days the whole sound would be full of dead fish. i mean sharks from 1' to 8' long and porpoises and all kind of stuff including red fish, just anything they cant keep they throw it back. even though we pull nets we are required to use TEDS and any kind of game fish can either outrun our nets and get out of the way or if they do get in the net they just go out of the TEDS. where as the pogy boats use purse type nets where nothing gets away. anyways, you can go on and on about this subject and i see both sides of it i guess i am just kind of partial to the commercial shrimper.