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1. Fishermen are unhappy with the fact that they are only allowed to fish a limited number of days. limited as in 26 out of 365. (To be honest, I'd be unhappy too.)
2. If they fish on a good day, they catch too much and there's bycatch. If they fish on a bad day, they don't catch anything at all.
3. Wiki Markup\[Many\] Fishermen don't believe that that there's an issue with overfishing. Their view: there has been some shift in the populations of fish, but there ARE still fish in the ocean, and there are definitely fish in the closed areas. Scientific data tells them that the fish populations are declining, so the government tells them to stop fishing. Scientific data tells them that the fish populations are still declining, even when they've cut down on the amount they're allowed to catch, so they feel it's not entirely an issue of catching too much fish.
4. Fishermen think scientists don't believe/understand them and their trade.
5. closed areas and quotas change frequently, making it more complicated for them to determine where they fish if they fish at all.
6. Can't make a living off fishing anymore, and are discouraging kids from going into the trade. Fishing will be gone in two generations unless something is done.
7. Fishing is a scattered industry made of small businesses, and fishermen have no representation in Washington, i.e. weak lobbying, etc.

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