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Starting out a commercial fishing license is in all reality a business license. You buy one so you can attempt to make money at it, not everyone does but many do. I don't pretend to know the exact statistics but Iam sure that fish and game could shed some light on the amount of salmon that are harvested commercially as compared to sport and I would be willing to guess it to be 10's of millions of pounds more. So why should it not be fair for those reaping the most benefit to be the ones to put back the most to keep the cycle going?
I was using the charter IFQ's for halibut to make the point that a natural resource that belongs to every citizen of the united states is essentially being given to a few to profit from. I understand that not all commercial fisherman are wealthy and that many of them are just getting by. The same can be said for charter boat operators and this new legislation that is being driven by the commercial fishing industry as a whole will sink a large portion of them.

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