11-10-2017, 03:21 AM
boats owned and operated by foreigners not American boats employing foreign fishermen as seasonal workers
Issues are closely related; without cheap foreign labor, costs would rise enough to naturally limit the overfishing.
As long as there is no political will, nothing will change.
Correct -- and a big piece of the problem is that almost every industry gets indirect subsidies in the form of unrecaptured externalized costs. Case in point: the fishing industry enjoys a big magic loophole exempting it from Federal regulations, which is why it can exploit cheap laborers that aren't even "lawfully admitted" to the US.
Issues are closely related; without cheap foreign labor, costs would rise enough to naturally limit the overfishing.
As long as there is no political will, nothing will change.
Correct -- and a big piece of the problem is that almost every industry gets indirect subsidies in the form of unrecaptured externalized costs. Case in point: the fishing industry enjoys a big magic loophole exempting it from Federal regulations, which is why it can exploit cheap laborers that aren't even "lawfully admitted" to the US.