From Tampabay.com:
Waiting to unload a boat full of fish last week, veteran crew member Tennessee Dave Kerrick sipped a beer and summed up the anger and resignation that is sweeping Pinellas County's grouper docks. "Everybody else is going out of work because of the economy; we are going out of work because of flipping reptiles." To protect loggerhead turtles, federal regulators voted last week to push the grouper fleet's 100 or so longline boats out to water that is at least 300 feet deep. Turtles rarely forage out there, but neither do a lot of keepable fish. Longliners figure they are done for...
Not in the West, but it sounds familiar.
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