whitehall
Diamond Member
Did you factor this into your republican equations?:
Only $3.5 mil was set aside for removing the pots too.
Hooray for the Waterman but how are you going to restore the crab population without puting the Watermen out of work? It's typical of the enviro radicals who operate on emotion instead of reality to call the salvage of 28,000 broken down crab pots a victory because Waterman got a winter's work at $300 per day. The pots do sell on the yuppie souvenir market. I wonder if they had to turn them over to some nameless federal bureaucracy for destruction?
You missed the point. It's not just the $300 a day, but all the crabs that won't die in ghost pots, are now available for those same watermen to harvest. As far as losing work, that's been happening for decades as the crab population declined. This could only help to put them back to work.
You don't seem to get the point. The Chesapeake has been a concern for decades. Every river in Virginia flows into it sooner or later and the state has been protecting watershead property and wetlands from flooding silt in to the water as far as the West Va. border. Dumping money on the problem is nothing new. Ever see an old crab pot? They rust out quickly in the salt water. The crabs walk in and the crabs walk out. At $5,000 per derilect pot I'd be out there pulling in the junk myself.