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Catch your own fish. Or eat beef. Commercial guys rape the
waters.



I agree.

Jim, can I then assume you don't eat any seafood that doesn't
come out
of Lake Michigan?
On the end of your personal fishing line?

No Alaska King Crab, Louisiana shrimp, or even tuna fish for you.
:-)
Bummer.


NP Chuck. I boat and fish on Lake Erie, not Lake Michigan.

Just because I eat fish does not mean the commercial fishermen are
not
raping the waters. They sure are on Lake Erie.

Lake Erie. duh, of course. Zero points to Gould for geography.

So you agree with NOYB that commerical fishermen are raping the
waters,
but disagree with NOYB that everybody should catch his or her own
fish.
Thanks for the clarification.

I don't think that everybody whould catch his/her own fish. But
curbs need to be imposed on commercial fishing.

The commercial guys take 89% of the grouper out of the Gulf...yet
they keep reducing the limits for recreational anglers.


That makes no sense.


How about yelling at your elected chumps to stop issuing commercial
licenses NOW, so as the fisherman die or retire, there will be less
commercial pressure? I think I read about that already being done
elsewhere.

The problem is that the commercials managed to get their very own
Manchurian Candidate on the NMFS council.

Dr. Roy Crabtree is the NOAA Fisheries Service's Southeast Regional
Administrator. He's also a shill for the commercial fisherman, and has
opposed every suggestion to buy out the commercial licenses as they
expire.


You have time and money. Instead of complaining here, how about walking
around the marina with a petition, and sending it to your governor?
Then, follow up with phonecalls until his office gives you an
appointment.

What is the governor going to do about a rogue NOAA director?

Commercial licenses are Federal permits. It's not a state issue.

Not yet. But, I guess you're right. You should do nothing but complain
about it here, where nobody from any governmental agency will ever see it.
This way, your expenditure of time is minimal and you can get back to your
next martini, and leave the hard work of being a real citizen up to
somebody else. Or, to nobody.

Traitor.

LOL. Have you been taking grumpy pills while I've been away?

Several hundred members and I from a fishing forum in Florida already wrote
our Senator about this issue when they were trying to lower the limit on
total grouper (not just red grouper) from 5 to 3. The letters were
apparently successful:

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/09/St...sts_grou.shtml

The reason that I'm posting about the regulations on rec.boats is so that
everybody else who is unaware of NOAA's unfair treatment of recreational
anglers can also write a letter.

Capisce?