I highly doubt the guy that wants fishing shut down in the winter was a fisherman. No fisherman wants more regulation, especially in the name of safety
Either that or he was an owner with several boats (or an ex-fisherman turned union lackey) doing back door wheeling and dealing with regulators, legislatures, conservationists and insurance companies for more days at sea, permit stacking, reduced deductables etc. I've seen it all in the scallop industry in the last 30 years since I was a young boy going to union meeting with my old man in the 1980's before it fell apart.
