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bif

(26,615 posts)
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 04:05 PM Apr 2025

Now The Rapist is deregulating the fishing industry!

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump's executive order to boost the U.S. commercial fishing industry drew praise from commercial fishing groups and condemnation from environmental organizations who said they fear cutting regulations will harm fish populations that have already dwindled in some areas of the oceans.

The order represents a dramatic shift in federal policy on fishing in U.S. waters by prioritizing commercial fishing interests over efforts to allow the fish supply to increase.

The president described his decision as “an easy one” that will improve the U.S. commercial fishing industry by peeling back regulations and opening up harvesting in previously protected areas.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fishers-celebrate-trumps-seafood-order-170513785.html

Who needs conservation?

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msongs

(73,022 posts)
2. when all the fish are gone the welfare fishing industry will want socialist handouts nt
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 04:09 PM
Apr 2025

TommyT139

(2,134 posts)
3. One malformed ego...
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 04:15 PM
Apr 2025

...should not have the power to speed this planet towards disaster.

 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
7. Trump or not, the end draweth nigh for human habitability of this Earth.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 07:42 PM
Apr 2025

One day it will shake what remains of humanity from itself like fleas from a wolf and start over and maybe next time the result will be intelligent life.

blm

(114,414 posts)
4. Moonies control the lion's share of the fishing industry. They adore Trump.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 04:28 PM
Apr 2025

Probably even more than they loved Bush.

The secret connection between bluefin tuna and the Moonies

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/spearfishing-bluefin-tuna-moonies-oysters/bluefin-tuna-karen-pinchin-kings-of-their-own-ocean

SWBTATTReg

(26,002 posts)
5. Well, here's the starting of the end of the Fishing Industry. They tried self-regulating the Fishing Industry, but
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 06:04 PM
Apr 2025

that didn't seem to do the trick. Plus, too many are overfishing the Oceans anyway, the Chinese for one thing, and probably others. Countries in South America have gone after some of these Chinese fishing fleets, who are literally scooping up entire ecosystems, while damaging Ocean floors.

Be prepared for super high prices on Seafood, even if it's caught wild or farmed. It's a shame as I love seafood, but want the regulations so we'll continue to have Seafood in the decades ahead.

Mossfern

(4,603 posts)
6. This is very concerning
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 06:56 PM
Apr 2025

my daughter's doctorate was about conservation of fisheries and the anthropogenic effects on water temperatures and fish populations. She said more ten years ago that we're screwed. Instead of investigating ways of increasing healthy fish populations, he's dooming future generations.

Those areas are protected for a reason - they are not arbitrary.
I was going to forward this article to her, but why depress her.

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