01/17/2024
Another example of bureaucracy regulation over reach. Again, the fishing industry. Bureaus have little or no accountability, if and when they do only through the office that appointed them, high profile bureau positions usually by the Executive Branch. They in effect bypass the legislation process that effect our everyday lives very much what signed, passed legislation does. And who are the individuals that impose these regulatory laws? They are laws passed and enacted by non-elected individuals with a stroke of a pen that carry real punitive and or criminal penalties if violated. They raise the cost of production that get passed on to the consumer.
This is the rub on this particular case;
A 1976 federal law requires herring boats to carry federal observers to collect data needed to prevent overfishing. That was fine with him. “There’s nothing wrong with the monitors,” he said. “They’re actually gathering information that is but a 2020 regulation interpreting the law that required his company to pay for the oversight, at a rate of some $700 a day, was another matter. “I don’t think it’s fair,” he said, adding that Congress had not authorized the agency to impose the fee valuable to us.”
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over whether to overturn a key precedent on the power of executive agencies.
