Progress is measured many ways. A phone call from 'Big Game Fishing Journal' and a talk with the editor, Capt Len was a surprise that lent itself to progress, for who would have thought a few years ago that both recreational fishermen and commercial fishermen would have so much in common. The common factor being EDF, the Environmental Defense Fund and their take over of both recreational and commercial fishing in a land where freedom was once the watch-word. The fisheries and the ever changing rules, regulations and now scientific data is again making headlines because of the supposed low Cod count (spawning cod) in the Northeast. Questions are being raised about both the 2008 and 2011 evaluations, method and out come. If one is wrong perhaps both were, or factors that haven't been yet discovered were not applied. Dave tells me, "Figures don't lie but liars figure." It is a well known truth that when looking at an object two people will see two different things. Take fish, some see a wonderful meal, some see money and EDF sees a way to control both. I enjoyed my talk with Capt. Len and the progress we have made in understanding our mutual enemy.
The Richard & Arnold is making progress, never fast enough for Dave, but things are moving ahead. The hull will be down to bear wood in the next few days, then the boat will get a shaft-log and a new transducer. A transducer measures water depth and the shaft-log will help keep the boat dry, replacing the stuffing box where the rotating shaft comes through the boat hull. We are making progress.
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