EDF has totally hijacked our fisheries management process as described on their own webiste – they were "instrumental in crafting and passing the reauthorization of Magnuson". So, all of these inflexible and arbitrary timeframes that we are faced with were put into place not by sound science, but by an environmental corporation for their own purposes.
Note the phrase "the LAW now requires…"
"Shaping the most sweeping fishery legislation in a decade. Our oceans team was instrumental in crafting and passing the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Act, which introduced a market approach to protecting our oceans. The law now requires that catch limits or caps be set for all fisheries and also encourages the use of tradable "catch shares," which give fishermen a financial stake in preserving fish populations and help sustain fishing communities. With EDF’s help, fishermen and fishing communities on the Gulf of Mexico and the West Coast set up programs that are revitalizing the red snapper and Pacific groundfish fisheries."
EDF NEEDS TO GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT.
Read this blog at Florida Sportsman.