Commercial Fishing Matters

Family-owned, small commercial fishing boats have been a way of life for generations. It's a tough, dangerous job and a way of life that is seriously in danger of disappearing. Whenever a small boat owner decides to stop fishing, there is an economic impact not just to that fisherman and his or her family, but to the community that harbors the boats as well. If small, family-owned commercial fishing boats stop working the water, America loses an important contributor to a healthy food chain. And we become poorer as a result. This video shows you what it's like to be a commercial fisherman fishing for salmon and crabs off the coast of San Francisco.

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• Commercial
• fishing
• salmon
• crab
• family-owned

[captainneal]

The truth

[freepress666]

in the EEC (Gulf of Mexico) their putting in fish farms baskets, ignoring the environmental damages, then taking away the quotas of fish from the commercial fishing, the hormones lumbering down the Mississippi is changing the male red snapper to female, which has caused an explosion of fry, which is causing them to cannibalize themselves.

[drjamyma]

5:39 dude looks like ron jeremy, yes i watched the whole video

[fordfan0817]

@mynameisbobilike2123 if u hate commercial fishing u can fucking die

[mynameisbobilike2123]

i hate commercial fishing

[mynameisbobilike2123]

fuck commercial fishermen...sutch pussys

[kaloncar]

Excellent instructional video on commercial fishing. My grandfathers were commericial fishermen here in West Michigan in the 30s and 40s.

We're doing everything we can to retain our commercial fishing industry on the Great Lakes and also keep our water (yes, people are wanting to drain the lakes too).

Thanks again for the excellent video and best wishes to you and yours in 2010.

[captcrusader34]

rimjoist why dont you go down to Outback and feed your face with farmed Talipa from a shit pool from Africa.....

[jewsrbest]

God Bless these men and women of the sea.

[strikenetter]

to rimjoist. i have seen fish decreasing in size my whole life also, but it runs in cycles.when i started in 93 i used 3" for spots until about 99. then i was able to catch em in 3 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch.two years later back to 3".and its been that way ever since i started. using 3"right now and the fish are really too small for that. its been like that with every species since i started. great video though. need more vids like this broadcasted.

[allen3200]

What fish are you talking about and what state are you in Farm raise sea food is a bad idea to much toxins in the water when large stocks of fish are held in pins and disease can and will spread through the fish stocks and then through the public it will not be good at all.And its not a career choice its my heritage and our way of life I can not live with out it. We the commercial fishermen are needed and we do need conservation but it has going way past conservation its an extermination of us.

[rimjoist]

Hey, Bro I hear what your saying, but I have seen the decrease in size of fish my whole life with my own eyes, I have picutures to prove it. I have also seen decreases in my own catch. Farming is the way of the future and many of the porb. are being solved with farming. Maybe it's time to think about a career change and be a part of a solution.