Raven quote: "I have been a member of a promulgation committee. That was in the 1980s. I was detailed from Casper, Wyoming to Washington, DC. We took formal comment from the public which included industries but the Office of Surface Mining wrote the final regulations pursuant to public comment and the authorizing statutes. When did industries start writing federal regulations? I just don't believe that would withstand legal challenge.
Regulations are not written by congressional critters. The committee I was on included Registered Professional Engineers, hydrologist, legal counsel, mining engineers, etc. I was selected as a Reclamation Specialist and because of my composition skills."
In the fishing industry, regulations are written by NMFS bureaucrats that promote their agenda. Which is their "need for more funding" to secure their jobs. If they do not max out their yearly budget, they may take a cut next. Also involved in making the regulations are Marine biologist, most of which have anti commercial fishing ideals. There are"public meetings" held to get "industry input" but that is only a formality. NEVER has a public meeting changed a regulation. Commercial fishing was for years basically self regulating. If a fishery is declining, the less productive boats can't turn a profit and will ,over time, be sold off or enter another fishery. The hard core best Captains keep struggling along, gain more market share and with less stress on the fishery, it turns profitable again. Once profitable again, more people enter the fishery and it starts all over. It's a vicious cycle that weeds out the least productive. With the exception of maybe a very select few species, no fishery can "catch all the fish" to extinction. It just is not possible. But that is not what the "textbooks" teach.