On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:44:30 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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On Oct 8, 10:35 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:10:50 -0000, shipmk wrote:
-Special Purpose Vessels: Research Vessel, Training Ship, Floating
Dock, Floating Crane, Pleasure Boat, Hospital Ship, Patrol Boat
Can you build a low transom 21 foot center console?
Why would anyone want to build one of those?

Fishermen love em'

They add structure to the bottom...

But they are not big enough to really provide a good home for the
monster fish. Now if you tie together about 10 of them, now that would
be some good structure.

Funny you should mention that.

One of the more interesting things I did last week, besides testing
boats that is, was attending a seminar on artificial reefs.

It was very interesting and a lot of really good science was
presented. Lots of data points including information on the building
process and discussion was lively and very civil.

One of the more intriguing presentations was done by a USFW service
biologist who really had a handle on the whole process. What was
startling was his belief, backed by some very solid empirical and
scientific evidence, that artificial reefs tended to aggragate fish
stocks and not create new fish stocks.

His point was that aggragating fish stocks by building artificial
reefs may not be the most desirable way to protect over utilized
species instead opting for more aggressive enforcement of current
regulations even up to and including quota enforcement and commercial
fishing buyouts.

To say that viewpoint was well received by the commercial types would
be a lie, but he held his ground and presented some very compelling
evidence that he was right.

I'm not totally convinced, but he made me think more about the
process.