I feel for the members of the SAFMC. These are the guys tasked with implementing a working solution to a preposterous federal mandate called the Magnuson-Stevens Act: End overfishing in two years.
Congress might just as well convene a panel to end racism by 2012 or lick global warming by Groundhog Day.
When the question is ridiculous, how sane an answer can you expect?
It was business as usual at the meeting of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council on Thursday, November 12, on Amendments 17A, 17B and 18.
The public pleaded its case against proposals that would put an end to bottom-fishing as we know it as well as bankrupt coastal communities. The council members blinked, nodded and looked like they wished they were home having dinner.