As soon as I read it this morning, I went right out and bought body armor and two handguns... some fishers have been sabotaging and harassing folks about this. I guess they just can't handle the truth. I'll be posting a series of three newspaper columns to go into this topic in greater depth over the next three weeks.
Overfishing is the issue... not fishing per se. After all, my son and several of my buddies take game and I have no problem with that.
The need for marine reserves, and their potential economic impacts on those whose livelihood depends on fishing or support of fishing activities is a very complex issue. I wish the reporter had been given more time to go into these complexities, but that's the nature of media news these days. Given the relative brevity of the article, I thought he did a pretty good job of presenting things in a fair and balanced manner.