Stoneington, Maine – Virginia Olsen has been lobstering the Maine’s pepper from Atlantic Water for decades when the state’s life -threatening industry threatens Mount.
Trade imbalances with Canada, fisheries and offshore air farms have become three of these threats like skyscrapers in open water, and Olsen, the fifth generation of his family for living in the lobster trade, said Olsen.
This is why he was encouraged last month when President Donald Trump signed an executive order that American fisheries promised to bring back their previous glory. The order promised to break the phishing regulations and Olsen said that the fishermen allowed them to do what they could best do – fish.
Olsen said it would make a huge difference between communities like the country’s busiest lobster fishing port Stoneington. It is almost completely dependent on commercial fishing with an economy of a small island city roads, gallows and mansard roof houses, about three hours above the coast of Portland, the largest city in Maine.
Olsen first knows how many years have changed over the years. Several hundred fish and shellfish people around the world have fallen to the low levels dangerously, have made scientists worrying and encouraged these restrictions and the limits have been found that Trump’s orders can be washed with a pen stroke. But he is glad that people who work traps and throw nets have become a priority in the distant place of their livelihood where they often feel that their voices are not heard.
“I think it is time to conversation about the rules of the art,” he said. “If all things are seen, we should show the rules in the phishing industry.”
But if there is a seat on the table finally with the interest in phishing and lobstering, the questions are how the marine food can be served there – and for how long. Trump’s 3 April April order, known as “Recovery of American Seafood Contest”, promises a regeneration of the way the United States has caught fish and quotes more than $ 20 billion national marine trade deficit as a reason to do so. The order called on the federal government to reduce the controlling burden on the fishermen later this month.
It appears at a time when conservation groups and many marine scientists say that the ocean needs more control, not less. A 2020 survey led by a scientist at the University of British Columbia monitored more than 1,300 fish and invertebrate populations and found that it was below 82% level that could produce the maximum sustainable yield. The university says that the research is “the worldwide has decreased, some of the most popular Grievan species are serious.”
Trump gives priority to trade rather than preserving. It also calls to develop a broad seafood trade technique and a review of existing marine monuments, which are protected under water, whether there should be any opening for fishing. At least one, the Heritage Marine National Memorial of the Pacific Islands has already been restarted.
Many commercial fishermen and phishing trade groups appreciated the orders. Members of this industry, one of the oldest, one of the oldest, have long been the case that heavy rules – many for the purpose of protecting the health of the fish population – leaving the United States with the same burden of competitive disadvantages of fleet. This disadvantage is why America imports more than two-thirds of its marine food, they argue.
“The President’s Executive Order recognizes the challenges in the face of our phishing family and community, and we appreciate the promise of reducing burdened rules and strengthening American marine food competition,” said Patrice McCon, executive director of the Maine Lobters Association.
Some fishermen, including Maine Lobsterman Don McHenn, have said that they have been able to fish in the sea that has been closed for years and are waiting for members of the industry. McHenn said he too was hopeful that the new rules would slow down.
“Unless they put it on us anymore,” said McHenan. “We’ll see – time will say.”
However, the support for controlling the fishermen is not unanimous. Some have said that the protection laws are important to protect the species that depend on the livelihood of the fishermen.
For example, in Alaska, Matt Web said that the executive order “panic” to him. In a commercial jail with more than 50 years of fishing to Salman, he said that the order could do this order possible by Bristol Bay Soki Salman Fisheri, which has received praise from sustainable companies for the care of the fish supply.
In the absence of this management, he said that the world’s largest Soki Salmon Fisheri could go on the cod phishing business in New England, which was broken due to overfishing in large parts and never recovered.
“Since the fisheries in New England lost their cod fisheries because of overfishing, many more fisheries came to pay homage and depended on the effort to conserve,” Wibb said. “We caught the fish because it means what we do and save the effort to save us and our kids can catch fish in the future.”
The executive order came at a time when American commercial fishermen were facing environmental challenges and the fall of some marketed species. Maine’s Historic Tihasik Shrimp Fisheries have closed more than a decade ago, the California Salmon industry is fighting through the closure of the industry, and in recent years the number of fish stocks on the federal overfisted list has increased.
What is the meaning of Trump’s trade war with big marine producers like Canada and China – there are questions about not mentioning American customers.
The answer is clear to many of the mulch shrimp and phishing business: cut the regulations and let them do their job.
“We certainly think the industry is overly controlled,” the Chief Operating Officer of the New England Fishermans Stuardship Association also said the fourth -generation Maine Lobsterman Dustin Dustin said. “We hope this will surely help. It tries to start the Strategy of America in Fisheri-first strategy.”
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