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Go let your voice be heard on this Red Snapper issue...
Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:04 am
Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:04 am
Call to Action
Red snapper crisis spawns new fish grab
In the wake of the announcement of a 27-day 2013 federal recreational red snapper season, we warned that the crisis would be used to justify all kinds of schemes and, unfortunately, that prediction was correct. On April 2, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) quietly opened a comment period for a pilot program that would let a select group of headboats take ownership of recreational red snapper quota to use as their own. It is another aggressive attempt to force a concept known as catch shares into the recreational sector. Catch shares literally give a portion of a fishery to a business entity for its own use and profit. Federal bureaucrats, among others, believe privatizing a public resource is justified in the pursuit of greater accountability.
While the states, other headboat businesses, and hundreds of thousands of recreational anglers deal with a 27-day season, this pilot program proposes to take a portion of the meager recreational quota and give it to a select group of about 20 boats to use as their own, whenever they want, however they want. It is the latest in a string of baffling decisions by NMFS that serve to ratchet down the public's access to a booming red snapper population.
Several of the Gulf states are rejecting federal management of red snapper, and federal bills have been filed seeking to give greater control of fishery resources to the states. CCA supports these efforts to move management to the states and believes that the states are far better equipped to create healthy marine resources that can be enjoyed widely by their citizens. We will continue to work to achieve that goal, but in the meantime we must continue to defend against federal schemes that privatize public resources under the guise of management.
In response to our blog warning against just this type of program, our members sent messages to members of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council asking them to reject any scheme to minimize recreational access to our marine resources. We received comments from Council members commending the quality and thoughtfulness of those emails. It is a sign of the times that we need to ask for your help again to deliver the same strong message to the National Marine Fisheries Service on this requested pilot program.
Please take a few moments to click the link below and ask the federal government to reject policies that distribute resources to the few and destroy access for the many.
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Red snapper crisis spawns new fish grab
In the wake of the announcement of a 27-day 2013 federal recreational red snapper season, we warned that the crisis would be used to justify all kinds of schemes and, unfortunately, that prediction was correct. On April 2, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) quietly opened a comment period for a pilot program that would let a select group of headboats take ownership of recreational red snapper quota to use as their own. It is another aggressive attempt to force a concept known as catch shares into the recreational sector. Catch shares literally give a portion of a fishery to a business entity for its own use and profit. Federal bureaucrats, among others, believe privatizing a public resource is justified in the pursuit of greater accountability.
While the states, other headboat businesses, and hundreds of thousands of recreational anglers deal with a 27-day season, this pilot program proposes to take a portion of the meager recreational quota and give it to a select group of about 20 boats to use as their own, whenever they want, however they want. It is the latest in a string of baffling decisions by NMFS that serve to ratchet down the public's access to a booming red snapper population.
Several of the Gulf states are rejecting federal management of red snapper, and federal bills have been filed seeking to give greater control of fishery resources to the states. CCA supports these efforts to move management to the states and believes that the states are far better equipped to create healthy marine resources that can be enjoyed widely by their citizens. We will continue to work to achieve that goal, but in the meantime we must continue to defend against federal schemes that privatize public resources under the guise of management.
In response to our blog warning against just this type of program, our members sent messages to members of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council asking them to reject any scheme to minimize recreational access to our marine resources. We received comments from Council members commending the quality and thoughtfulness of those emails. It is a sign of the times that we need to ask for your help again to deliver the same strong message to the National Marine Fisheries Service on this requested pilot program.
Please take a few moments to click the link below and ask the federal government to reject policies that distribute resources to the few and destroy access for the many.
Click the link below to log in and send your message:
LINK
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Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:07 am to Howard Juneau
whatevs. fricka Snapperez
This post was edited on 4/15/13 at 9:08 am
Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:18 am to meauxjeaux2
quote:
whatevs. fricka Snapperez
Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:32 am to Howard Juneau
yeah. MJ2 has deep deep butthurt for offshore fishing. His wittle tummy can't handle it.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:37 am to Motorboat
quote:I have severe butthurtism for the Snapperez. Love the rest of the offshore species even though I haven't been out in a while.
MJ2 has deep deep butthurt for offshore fishing.
I just think it's pretty foolish and quite the waste of time to fight so hard and get panties in the wad over one subspecies of Snapper.
Why just not go after everything else in the sea?
Posted on 4/15/13 at 9:55 am to meauxjeaux2
quote:
Why just not go after everything else in the sea?
IF you bottom fish around the platforms or reefs it is pretty damn hard to get your bait down to anything but a red snapper
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:07 am to meauxjeaux2
it's the easiest fish to catch out there. this is like if they outlawed catching catfish. why wouldn't you just fish for all the other fish? because it's god damned ridiculous for someone to tell me that i can't fish for catfish.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:07 am to meauxjeaux2
quote:
I just think it's pretty foolish and quite the waste of time to fight so hard and get panties in the wad over one subspecies of Snapper.
It is a slippery slope dude. And if you haven't noticed, they are attempting to impose restrictions on "everything else in the sea"--grouper, trigger fish, AJ, tuna, etc.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:08 am to Motorboat
quote:
And if you haven't noticed, they are attempting to impose restrictions on "everything else in the sea"--grouper, trigger fish, AJ, tuna, etc.
It's only a matter of time.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:09 am to Motorboat
quote:
trigger fish
I honestly can't understand the regulation of trigger fish. Those things are literally everywhere and aren't really targeted. Sure they eat pretty damn good but are hard to hook and not much fun to clean. That is like regulating sheephead IMO
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:14 am to Motorboat
This is like the "Dey Tuk er Jerbzz" episode on Southpark.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:15 am to bayoudude
It's the feds way of showing that they can, it's bullshite. Although, last weekend we got stopped by the federalies with a 3 man limit of both red and mangrove snapper, they just measured and counted the fish and let us go on our way.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:23 am to meauxjeaux2
quote:
This is like the "Dey Tuk er Jerbzz" episode on Southpark.
I don't get it. I quit watching cartoons when I hit puberty.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:28 am to Motorboat
Guys, y'all are getting in a debate with MJ2?? Please don't waste your time with that rube.
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:50 am to bayoudude
quote:
I honestly can't understand the regulation of trigger fish.
Commercially viable species for starters. It is one of the unintended consequences of the red snapper restrictions, as there have been multiple observations of snapper robbing triggerfish egg nests and consuming juveniles by scientist of course. If you or I saw it happen its anecdotal and dismissed. We don't see it here in LA because we don't target them like the boats in AL, FL and TX from which most of the NMFS scientific data is compiled.
Which one is next mahi or mangrove?
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:52 am to Capt ST
quote:I'd say AJ' or Cobia before any one of those.
Which one is next mahi or mangrove?
Posted on 4/15/13 at 10:58 am to meauxjeaux2
quote:
Cobia
I dreamed I caught a cobia last night
Posted on 4/15/13 at 11:01 am to Motorboat
quote:WELL,they are kinda penis shaped.
I dreamed I caught a cobia last night
Posted on 4/15/13 at 11:30 am to Capt ST
quote:
Which one is next mahi or mangrove?
Probably mahi. The Feds don't really seem to give a rats arse about the mangrove in my experiences with them. Maybe I've just been lucky though.
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