. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. problem. You need a hammer, but you are using a screwdriver. You have got to pick out what your problem is and use the right tool. You are not going to fix everything with a screwdriver. "Our approach is to say, 'Let's look at the whole tool kit and let fishermen help us choose the right tool,'" he says. Orbach says his project will provide resource managers with plenty of information to think about but not any ready-made answers. "If you're a public policymaker, you still will have to make
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. problem. You need a hammer, but you are using a screwdriver. You have got to pick out what your problem is and use the right tool. You are not going to fix everything with a screwdriver. "Our approach is to say, 'Let's look at the whole tool kit and let fishermen help us choose the right tool,'" he says. Orbach says his project will provide resource managers with plenty of information to think about but not any ready-made answers. "If you're a public policymaker, you still will have to make value decisions once you have our data," he says. "But biological data doesn't tell you the answers ; Commercial fishermen and recreational anglers are like siblings. Sometimes they get along; some- times they don't. But as stocks of many popular fish have declined in recent years, the bickering between the two groups has increased as they com- pete for fish, fishing grounds and the right to catch certain species. In North Carolina, the strife has come over striped bass, redfish, flounder and speckled trout. And the arguments usually go something like this. Recreational anglers claim that the commercial fishermen are greedy, catching more than their fair share of the resource and leaving nothing behind for the sportsmen to catch. And, the anglers claim that their weekend fishing fun feeds millions of dollars into the coastal economy, giving them the right to a ready supply of fish. Commercial fishermen say it's just the opposite. It's the recreational fishermen who are greedy. After all, they say, watermen are trying to make a living from fishing, and they provide the only avenue for wild fish to reach a public hungry for this high quality protein. The mediators for the two groups have been management groups such as the Marine Fisheries Com- mission and the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. So far, they have arbitrated most of the disputes, w
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