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Originally Posted by capt coonassty
This is exactly it. Cost. I'm perfectly willing to pay extra for a resource that is caught more sustainable and responsibly and do so often. You're saying that the value of the wasted resources is less than the increase you would see at the store.
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what he is trying to say is fishermen are being bankrupted by these devices that double and triple the cost of catching shrimp and while you talk the talk, are you willing to pay $15 a pound for 30 count shrimp and $30 a pound for 16 count? or are you going to just buy that $12 a pound prime beef steak instead? because that's about what the prices "should" be at so shrimpers can make an adequate profit margin on what is costs to catch them. right now shrimpers are averaging selling their shrimp for maybe 5% more then what they spend to catch them and that is not counting maint repairs and breakdowns.
right now they barely make any money at all and if something breaks they lose money on the trip.