"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 3 Jun 2005 13:18:23 -0700, wrote:
While the following press release is primarily addressing commercial
fishing, the phrase "large areas cold be declared off limits to
trawling and other activities" may have some repercussions for sports
fishermen:
Media Advisory
Contact: Kathleen Goldstein, Environmental Defense, 202-841-0295
Pacific Fishery Management Council to Address Critical Fishery
Management Issues
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Is the Pacific Fishery Management Council the agency charged with
regulating, controlling and establishing fisheries quotas or is this
council an invention of the Environmental Defense Fund?
Later,
Tom
I have been out fishing on Lake Erie with a mass of walleye showing on the
fish finder and close to some nets set up by commercial fishermen. We
caught our limit and returned to the same spot the next day....no fish. We
moved. No fish. We moved again...several times....no fish. Go figure.
Try to take a boat ride from Huron to Cedar Point or Sandusky Bay without
running into commercial nets in the water....they are everywhere.
We need to limit the number of pounds of fish commercial fishermen harvest.
If I recall Canada has not set up any such restrictions on commercial
fishing in the Great Lakes and they are raping our Lake of fish. Without
these restrictions we can kiss any sort of recreational fishing goodbye.
So I welcome any studies and restrictions on fishing limits, most especially
those aimed at commercial fishing operations.