Surveys

[Broad Bill]

Originally Posted by NoLimit

Why don’t they survey the by catch on every commercial trawler

They do, most have federal observers on board which I believe are paid for by our tax dollars. They just don't use their numbers when harvest numbers are tallied and there are huge discrepancies between on board federal reporters and what operators report on vessel trip reports which makes no sense whatsoever. What's the point of hiring federal observers if you're not going to use their numbers. NMFS use to report the differences in the stock assessments but the differences were so significant they stopped reporting it since it was self incriminating and didn't support the narrative they wanted.