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SeawolfGaming t1_je2uzyr wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Maine Lobstermen could face new size limits for catch by stewart0077

Ah yes 725 million, you're forgetting that there are middlemen taking large cuts of money and that the lobstermen aren't getting that full 750 million. There are also taxes involved. The numbers truly don't add up. If you want me to do the math, I will but the amount they make after tax isn't enough to afford 100k new trucks every fucking year let alone even every 5 or 10 years.

I know a lot of Lobstermen, fuck I live in the highest catching port in our damn state. I barely know any that spend money on drugs. Now go do some real fucking research instead of spreading the constant misinformation that you keep hearing.

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arms_room_rat t1_je2t1nf wrote

Reply to comment by SeawolfGaming in Maine Lobstermen could face new size limits for catch by stewart0077

Lobstermen aren't some noble group of people that should be free to roam the seas with impunity. It's an important industry and employs a large amount of hard working mainers, but you seem to be idealizing them in a way that is pretty delusional. They are generally pretty uneducated and backwards thinking as a group, they think everyone else should be bending over to accommodate their industry and any effort to regulate is going to "put them out of business", and it's pretty true that they either are pretty wealthy if they are smart with their money or they are crippled drug addicts who do a lot of harm to their community.

I generally think the state should invest in moving away from resource based industries because whether it's global warming or over fishing it's a vulnerable industry and it would be a disaster if it collapsed with no replacement. See the grand banks fisheries in newfoundland or the paper industry in maine.

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