DO YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE RED SNAPPER bullshite

This is all planned out well in advance. I have been warning people about this for years. They are leveraging the snapper season to get the recreational anglers to rise up and demand the appeal of the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act because the commercial guys hate it. But the problem is not the act, it is the fricking bullshite councils that control everything. Some of them are actually lobbyist for commercial fisherman. The commercial interest have controlled the Gulf Coast Council for 18 of the last 20 years. The rep for LDWF was Corkey Perret for Christ sake. A commercial fisherman whore. When you guys ran him out of Louisiana he was appointed the Rep for you guessed it, MDWF.

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS bullshite>

The move is too:

Lobby for the removal of the council and a new better approach

A national boycott of all Snapper is restaurants this year and collapse the damn market. One month of this and they will fold.

The major criticisms of the act have been its failure to stem overfishing, minimize bycatch, and to hold accountable regional councils that don’t enforce or implement fisheries management plans. Additionally, the act is accused of coddling fishers who make poor business decisions, inadequately protecting ecosystems, and lacking transparency requirements for fishery related data.[24]
Poor enforcement of previous versions of the act is often blamed for depleting stocks. Fishermen have accused each other of cheating on landings and chastised regulators for concentrating the quota allocations into too few hands.[25] Other critics claim the regulatory framework is too “top-down” and alienates local fishers, thereby reducing the likelihood to achieve the cooperation needed to enforce many provisions. Candice May, of Colorado State University, argues that federal legislators can’t forge these relationships largely because they haven’t properly identified what a “fishing community” is. She highlights the successes of the Community Development Quota system employed in some Alaska fisheries.[26]
In response to these types of criticisms, “On May 1, 2010, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) implemented a new management system for ground fish in New England. It established 17 fishermen-run collectives, called sectors. Sectors were pioneered by fishermen as voluntary, cooperative and community-based, and were designed to protect fleet diversity and coastal communities. The new management system operates on three simple premises:
It implements science-based catch limits to rebuild fish populations and prevent overfishing.
It incorporates monitoring so fishermen and regulators know exactly how much fish is being caught, and as a result, fishing stops once catch limits have been reached.
Each sector receives its own share of the annual catch. While respecting catch limits, the co-ops provide fishermen with the flexibility to set their own fishing guidelines so they can run their businesses more efficiently and profitably. Those who develop more innovative fishing gear can target more of the healthy fish populations and avoid those populations that are struggling.”[27]


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