Thursday, February 6, 2020

Go Fish!

From time to time it is worth reading through the bills going through Congress. HR 1240 is the Young Fisherman's act. They note:

H.R. 1240 would require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program to provide grants for training, education, outreach, and technical assistance to young fishermen. The bill would authorize the expenditure of $2 million a year over the 2021-2025 period from the Fisheries Enforcement Asset Forfeiture Fund for those purposes. (Grants would be capped at $200,000 for each recipient and could be renewed for up to three fiscal years.) Amounts in the fisheries fund are available to be spent on authorized purposes without further appropriation. That fund has a balance of about $17 million and collects about $4 million a year in penalties. CBO estimates that authorizing the grant program would increase direct spending by $10 million from the fund over the 2020-2025 period.

Now this means we give, yes that is a grant, $200,000 to a young fisherman. Perhaps some politicos child.