I am already paying more for net caught fish. Sometimes the quality is there, and sometimes it isn't. I'm willing to pay the 10%-20% more that I'm paying now, but no more until the quality issues are all solved. It's already practically impossible to sell net caught fish (I don't even put that notation on my stocklist anymore). I'm not going to lose any more money until the quality concerns are fixed. Yes, the collectors are poor, but if I'm out of business then what good does that do them?
Say let's implement the idea of a 100% price increase only to the net caught collectores- and let's do it today. My fish will now be approximately 25% more expensive than all of the big boys (whom I already have an impossible task of competing with on fish). Oh yeah, that's going to do a lot of good. Then I won't sell ANY fish. What's 100% of zero, folks??
Again, it's ignorance of the industry that leads people to believe that a 100-500% increase to the divers would ever happen at this point. It's not going to happen, so it's really a waste of time to discuss it. I do support a 10%-20% increase for the collectors. More once all of the quality concerns are solved.
Say let's implement the idea of a 100% price increase only to the net caught collectores- and let's do it today. My fish will now be approximately 25% more expensive than all of the big boys (whom I already have an impossible task of competing with on fish). Oh yeah, that's going to do a lot of good. Then I won't sell ANY fish. What's 100% of zero, folks??
Again, it's ignorance of the industry that leads people to believe that a 100-500% increase to the divers would ever happen at this point. It's not going to happen, so it's really a waste of time to discuss it. I do support a 10%-20% increase for the collectors. More once all of the quality concerns are solved.