08-05-2009, 11:40 PM
A moratorium on commercial fishing won't work because some $#&^*&$$'$ countries would sieze upon the opportunity to pick up the slack. We could then put a ban on imports but it still wouldn't stop the imports going elsewhere. Something radical would be to forbid commercial fishing within a vastly expanded area off our shores. Here in Hawaii, we could go to 200 miles and see what happens. Patrol via USN & USCG, with draconian measures for intruders (heavy fines, seize the boats and sink them for reefs etc. Rod & reel fishing only. That would help the sporting goods economy. Consumer fish available through fish farms only, but since hormones and antibiotics disgust me, it would be no fish for me. Do it for 5 years and see if there's any improvement. There's always tomorrow.