The netting industry created thousands of jobs ranging from the people who made and sold the nets to the crew on the boats. The boats brought in thousands of pounds of fish annually which provided the average consumer with fresh fish as much as he or she wanted. The value in 1990 of the commercial net harvest in Florid

a was about $42,800,000, 20% of the total commercial harvest in Florida. This was a valuable business and the ban cause a lot of income to be lost. As for the accusations regarding the hundreds of turtles and dolphins killed each year in their nets, the reports from the netters who record such incidences show that only a small handful of these were related to netters. Robert P. Jones, the executive director of the Southeastern Fisheries Association, shows through his research that from 1988 to 1992 only 21 turtles died as a result of the nets while a much higher number were killed from ingesting fishing line and hooks. Netters show that fish populations have not decreased a significant amount since the ban went into effect. The ban put many people out of the job and with current conditions in our economy, opening up more jobs would definitely help. There are thousands of people who are working to have the banned removed and it is possible that it will be in the future.

There are many positives as well as negatives that stem from this issue. Nobody wants peo

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