It's an important part of our economy, but it is, it is understandably and necessarily regulated because if you overfish a population, it goes away and you destroy the ability to keep going back and fishing it. We have this problem in the Gulf of America with Mexicans, many of whom are funded by the Mexican drug cartels, using illegal launches to come up and fish red snapper. And in fact, they fish snapper from the Gulf of America. They do it illegally, they steal it, they take it back down to Mexico, they smuggle it into the United States, and they sell it here and pretend it's domestic cot. (05:57–06:09)
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Asserts that Mexican drug cartels are involved in illegal fishing in the Gulf of America.
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