I sure hope that this comes through. This is a story about an incredible man in today's world!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19886675/site/newsweek/

Came through, thanks, is great.

Hopefully another Norman will emerge to increase the output of commercial fish farming, and reduce the likelihood of the "clear cutting" (how I envision the netting and long-lining practices) that I fear will expand until it destroys the world's fisheries.

Wow, would that be amazing...

It's way more complicated than pinning the tail on big commercial fishing entities, but you knew that. How do I as one individual tell another individual what they are doing is wrong? We're back to the dichotomy of good and evil. If I show them a better way, I get a much better response...theoretically.

Thank you, Tanglediver. I of course agree with all that you say.

In my earlier comment I referred to the practice of netting entire schools. This practice reduces the genetic diversity of the wild stock, and throws the local ecosystem out of whack (e.g., when West Nile killed our hawks and owls, we were overrun by rabbits). To me this practice (as well as long-lining) is conceptually parallel to clear-cutting a forest.

What I really meant to emphasize, though, is that--if in the commercial fish business, farming can be made more profitable than catching, then that would leave more fish for me to catch. I mean, that would preserve the genetic diversity of the wild stock.