Your roots are showing – don’t be convinced by seeming grass roots efforts
Particularly now that the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is at hand, much is being made of the supposed grass roots endorsements that are supposed to benefit all of the fishermen who the endorsers claim to be representing. This being the case, I thought it might be useful to examine what “grass roots” really means and to contrast some bona fide grass roots fishing groups with some that, in spite of their billing, might not live up to such a claim. A handful of fishermen and other folks involved in the fishery and one volunteer, a gentleman named Jonathan Gonzalez who started out firmly in favor of “protecting” the oceans from fisherman but after digging into the issues rightfully concluded that these fishermen were the ones who were wearing the white hats and shifted his allegiance, went to Sacramento to attend a hearing on the legislation. Read the rest here 14:00
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