07-01-2020, 09:39 AM
(05-28-2020, 12:32 PM)double trouble ot Wrote: It's not that easy . The quota is set by the buyers .The price is set by the buyers .The bait is controlled by the buyers. If you try to get this kind of stuff by yourself good luck when you have to go back to the buyers .
The solution has got to come from the fishermen themselves.
The revolution has got to be complete or it is doomed to failure. Analogy would be pushing a heavy vehicle half way up the hill. It will backslide down.
But "complete" doesn't mean turn all the buyers into lobster bait.
If all the sellers in one port or the entire nation banded together, secretly setting up a cooperative and developed new marketing plans, the traditional buyers wouldn't know who or how to cause grief on any one seller. (This addresses sentence 5 of the 5 sentence reply quoted.)
When the Asians gained control of all the aspects of the lobster industry, it almost turned the fishermen into hourly employees. I hope they don't control the banks too. (My dad never financed an automobile but a 10K car is not a boat in the 6 figure category.)
I know I proposed looking to the goverment on how to skirt export restrictions, and I am the first person to admit I do not have (all) the answers, but now is the time (lobster season being over) to band together.
---editorial---
(nah, I decided not to get into explaining good intentions.)
I'm not requesting HOW one group became so powerful. I'm only now wondering if there is a parallel to Wal-Mart coming to town.
As I sit here, asking myself if anyone appreciates (ie, understands) the reference to Wal-Mart, if I should expand upon it or just accept that people wouldn't bother to put any thought into it, there was something new in the news about cows instead of lobsters.
82 farms in Pennsylvania lost their outlet for milk production. The local processor cancelled partly because Wal-Mart has built their own plant. Milk is being trucked in from far away farms. Greed can wreck flurishing communities/families.