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Regulation Of Commercial Salmon Fisherman: A Case Of Confused Objectives, Ralph W. Johnson

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To be blunt, the salmon boat fisherman is as obsolete as the buffalo hunter. The "secret'"—traps and weirs; they make salmon catching absurdly easy and can be operated at 1/20 to 1/30 the boat-catching costs. Hunting for salmon on the high seas is like chasing bees in a meadow. Why not wait until the bees return to their hive, or until the salmon return to their spawning stream? Hunting for salmon with boats makes economic sense as a temporary palliative to an unemployment problem; it makes economic nonsense as a permanent industry in a competitive society in a …