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re: This Pogie Hearing Tomorrow... You Baws Need to Come or Email the LDWF!
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:53 am to shellbeachspeckzzz
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:53 am to shellbeachspeckzzz
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the greed of man is the most dangerous animal on the face of planet earth
It's honestly why, in spite of a lot of over regulation and painful beuracratic processes, supporting conservation efforts and enforcement is critical if we want our grandkids and great grandkids to enjoy the outdoor life.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 8:53 am to Guntoter1
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Skip the meeting and while everyone is at the meeting go to the pogey boats and ……… Problem solved.
I remember being completely overjoyed to see two pogie boats beached high and dry in the middle of the 4 lane after Katrina in port sulphur. Damn boats were back destroying the fishery in a month or so.
Unfathomable that anyone remotely connected with WLF could support or tolerate the pogie industry.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 9:27 am to sabbertooth
quote:. It comes from above their pay grade
Unfathomable that anyone remotely connected with WLF could support or tolerate the pogie industry.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:34 am to choupiquesushi
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It comes from above their pay grade
my dad was blackballed from the land office for raising a stink over a very similar issue in the 90s.
its shitty. we were blessed with the best fishing in the country and its all going to ruin because of a few **** politicians
Posted on 2/4/24 at 4:28 pm to Dock Holiday
David is a worthless douche
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:28 am to lsuson
The industrial-scale menhaden fishing allowed by Louisiana isn’t welcome in other Gulf states. Why? Is it politics or stupidity?
Florida and Alabama have banned it entirely. Mississippi won’t allow it within a mile of its shores. Texas has half-mile and one-mile buffers and a strict catch limit that have effectively killed the industry in the western Gulf.
As for the East Coast, only Virginia allows it now, albeit with ever-tightening catch limits and harsh penalties when the industry breaks the rules.
But in Louisiana, the pogie industry has free rein. We have dozens of rules for its other commercial fisheries, but menhaden ships can fish where they want and take as much as they want.
Even by the industry’s own estimates, the unrestricted haul is immense. About a billion pounds of menhaden are caught in Louisiana waters each year, making it by far the biggest fishery in the state and the Gulf by weight.
Omega, which does not publicly disclose its fishing data, says it keeps bycatch below 5% of their total catch.
So if Omega is hauling in a billion pounds of fish from Louisiana waters, that 5% of bycatch is 50 million pounds of our trout and redfish.
That’s 15 times larger than the state’s combined commercial catch of tuna, mackerel, and snapper.
Meanwhile, the LDWF is restricting the recreational sector's bag limits and slot sizes. Would we need to do that if we left that 50 million pounds of trout and redfish in the water along with the billion pounds of bait fish for them???
This is nonsense.
Just one more thing Louisiana is dead last on. And their plea that they'll lose 90 jobs? Since when is the LDWF in the economic development business? The LEWF website says, "The Commission is charged with the control and supervision of the wildlife of the state, including all aquatic life." Nothing about jobs.
Follow the money, baws.
This post was edited on 2/6/24 at 11:39 am
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:55 pm to Howard Juneau
1 mile buffer and the same catch limit of 31.5M pounds would do wonders for the Louisiana fishery.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 11:26 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Exactly… very corrupt but I mean look at the big picture? How can we expect more from the state when the fed govt is a freaking clown show. Wild and sad times
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:20 am to Lsutigerturner
La politics is what hold this state down. Its a dang shame
Posted on 2/6/24 at 11:05 am to Park duck
and i'm sure 75% of workers are on H1B visas!!!!!!!
Posted on 2/6/24 at 11:16 am to bluewing
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i'm sure 75% of workers are on H1B visas!!!!!!!
The rape of U.S./Louisiana resources by international organizations utilizing low wage international visa workers. All for some extra dollars in a politicians pocket. Despicable and borderline treason.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 11:39 am to bluewing
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and i'm sure 75% of workers are on H1B visas!!!!!!!
Would be an interesting question to ask them, but they don't get straight answers to anything.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:40 pm to Howard Juneau
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Remember this image, or the other images of dead fish littering our beaches, the next time somebody says they don’t kill much bycatch.
I think the only people saying this work for the pogie industry.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 3:13 pm to Poppy201
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game is like college football and the NIL debacle. He who has most money controls the game
What game does UT and A&M control? They don't win championships or finish with the #1 recruiting class
so hopefully Omega is like them
Posted on 2/6/24 at 3:42 pm to Midtiger farm
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so hopefully Omega is like them
Omega, Daybrook, etc... Will fight tooth and nail and spend large amounts of money to keep Louisiana pogie fishery with minimal oversight and strictures. It's their last stronghold in the U.S.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:36 pm to bluewing
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and i'm sure 75% of workers are on H1B visas!!!!!!!
This is not the case.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:22 am to Howard Juneau
Bump.
Special meeting tomorrow at 1pm at wlf. According to the advocate they are down to 1/2 mile buffer. Thanks for nothing as usual CCA.
Special meeting tomorrow at 1pm at wlf. According to the advocate they are down to 1/2 mile buffer. Thanks for nothing as usual CCA.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 11:39 am to Shanks A Lot
quote:These baws get paid either way, or both ways perhaps? Use crisis for member donation drive, take payoff from the enemy to split the baby.
CCA
Aka the NRA model.
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 11:42 am
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:23 pm to Shanks A Lot
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:25 pm to Dock Holiday
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David Cresson, if you are reading this, I have your cell number from past conversations and I will post it here if you fail us... J/K... maybe...
Get ready.
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