Here I think I’ve got it bad – a two year ban on salmon fishing and me and my fellows either gashing ourselves over too much water or too little, and now they’ve banned fishing on the Sea of Galilee …

… makes you wonder whether that magistrate or agency middle manager wasn’t feeling the heat of a thunderbolt when he put that pen to paper.

So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. 8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.”

As the above passage suggests, given a little wiggle room, anglers have exploited fisheries since ancient times. Little doubt that all of Pontius Pilate’s regulations were ignored – who wouldn’t throw caution to the wind when the fellow yanking on the net next to you could walk on water?

As TC is wont to say, a sure sign of the coming apocalypse …

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