{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["340740", "21050", "Gutting NOAA", 100, "Bryce", "Mar 14, 2025", "2025-03-14T17:55:16-0400", "seabird said: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            Just going to pushback on this. NOAA and other very similar NGOs also fuck over commercial fishermen big time. Talk to any fishing boat captain in the US and I assure you they will share this sentiment\u2026 They have to pay out of pocket for observers to ride on their boat, share their bunks, eat their food, and monitor their catch. They already operate on ridiculously tight margins and they have to essentially profit share with fed employees to ultimately catch less fish.. Speaking from direct, direct experience..\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nYou said federal employees, but the fishery observers are contractors not feds. Those are two different things, especially with all the focus on federal employees in the news.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou're right in stating a lot of fisherman don't like the observers on their boats. But let it be known that the general concept of observers is in the best interest of the sustainability of the fisheries, ensuring limits and regulations are followed for all the boats in the fleet and with the goal of not exhausting the resource due to excessive take and malpractice. Sure it sucks when you want to make as most money as you can as a fisherman, but imagine the depletion of fish stocks and marine ecosystem degradation if fishing boats were allowed to fish wide open and take as many fish as they possible can and in any method they can imagine. Our impact on the environment is much larger and stronger than we have historically acknowledged. Plus there are a lot of really bad fishery observers out there who are bad shipmates or were unprepared to be thrown into the hard-core culture of a lot of fishing boats with crews that are families or as tight as a family. So of course that factors into fishermen's dislike of having some random person on their boat enforcing regulations with usually very little experience or sea legs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlso, the general sentiment towards NOAA in New England is much different from the West Coast. New Englanders have been putting the pressure on fishing stocks for generations longer than the West Coast and they don't like being told where or how much they can fish. Understandable, but just because you are familiar with one part of the country's outlook on the agency, doesn't mean that translates to other parts of the country the same."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["340740"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7080530012899544, "license": "Public Domain"}