LSU Tigershark South Alabama Fan 10,000 posts Member since Dec 2007 7004 posts
re: Feds killing red snapper by blowing up rigs (Posted on 2/10/13 at 12:31 pm to tigerdawg129)
When I worked offshore in college, we did P&A work. When we blew the casings up at the midline, to pull the well, fish would float up everywhere. That's why we had nets
Capt ST LSU Fan EM-50 Project Member since Aug 2011 3313 posts
re: Feds killing red snapper by blowing up rigs (Posted on 2/10/13 at 12:37 pm to Uncle JackD)
I used to talk with a boat capt that did I also. Ran into him at the BK in Boute on time and he had two ice chests full of grouper meat. Not talking 48qts either.
thejudge LSU Fan Westlake, LA Member since Sep 2009 3286 posts
re: Feds killing red snapper by blowing up rigs (Posted on 2/10/13 at 2:45 pm to JAB528)
Some friends were tired up to a rig when someone came over and said they had to back off for a detonation. They told him to untie and back away and wait for the fish to float up. He couldn't believe the loot he netted in.
mack the knife LSU Fan SE Louisiana Member since Oct 2012 594 posts
re: Feds killing red snapper by blowing up rigs (Posted on 2/10/13 at 3:16 pm to tigerdawg129)
this is the same group of DA's that tell us snapper are over fished/going extinct and at the same time they want to remove their habitat. is it any wonder the country is broke?
Capt ST LSU Fan EM-50 Project Member since Aug 2011 3313 posts
re: Feds killing red snapper by blowing up rigs (Posted on 2/10/13 at 3:45 pm to mack the knife)
Really don't feel like ranting here about it, the process is so fricking, fricked up. Surveying method fricked up, statistical formulas really fricked up. And then this whole dismantling the rigs is really fricked up.
And a freezer full of fish