You know what is cruel and unusual punishment? Having the rest of the state pick up the tab for commercial fisheries year after year, because they don't think they should have to cover the full costs of commercial fish management. The recent ISER study shows that we subsidize commercial fish management at $25 million per year. $6 billion in commercial fish seafood exports, and Alaska loses money. 

Why doesn't John write an article about how heroic it is to ask other people to continue to cover your private business costs while schools are closing around the state and people in other private businesses are being laid off. 

But that would be against the tenets of being yet another media propagandist for commercial fisheries - attack tourism, attack oil and gas, attack forestry, attack mining, all the while fleecing the state and laughing your way to the bank.