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OPINION: The unconstitutionality of federal fishing law |
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Under the guise of helping in the management of common resources, an
agency of the federal government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and its National Marine Fisheries Service, is
transforming the open ocean into an enclosed field — a field one can
enter only upon paying a considerable access fee.
Once in the field, strict control is exercised over any and all aspects of the fisheries: seasons allowed, days allowed, zones allowed, species allowed, amounts allowed. These decisions are taken on the basis of obsolete science that is questionable at best, the linear and static conception of the food pyramid. Modern science that is thought out in serious institutions of higher learning and is written up in the most respected journals, science that is dynamic and organic and reasons in term of cyclical predator-prey patterns, is not given any consideration. |
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BOSTON HERALD: Fishing for help
It shouldn’t be the Wild West out there on the high seas, but as one sign in the flotilla said, “Fishing families are working families.” That is a message Obama and his underlings should remember.
