re: The administration's plan on Red Snapper

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what does this have to do with, well, anything?

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The OP squarely laid blame for the snapper restrictions on Obama. Utter nonsense, but I felt it necessary to make sure the record was clear that the snapper restrictions went into place before Obama took office.

Why not attend the meeting this evening on regional management?

LDWF Urges Public to Attend Meeting on Regional Management

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The LDWF strongly urges the public to attend this meeting and voice their opinions. This is the best opportunity for you to make suggestions or raise concerns before the Council begins developing an amendment. The Louisiana meeting is scheduled as follows:

Monday, January 14, 2013, 6 p.m.
Doubletree by Hilton 4964 Constitution Avenue Baton Rouge, LA 70808

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i didn't like him either

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me too!

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commercial refishing equated to Sandusky boys' camp

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Good analogy. I doubt CCA would ever let it happen, but if you limited them to 5 per person like the recs have, I could see doing this. Maybe get some La redfish back in restaurants on a limited basis.

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i didn't like him either




me too!

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One of the greatest Presidents ever.

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commercial refishing equated to Sandusky boys' camp

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Sure. I don't seem to catch any more redfish recreationally now in Venice than I did in the late 80's and 90's. Gill nets and redfish have been banned for over 16+ years. And the Venice area probably has the largest or close to the largest redfish population in the country. Venice is where my family's seafood dock was. Most of the overfishing was with bull reds caught offshore in seine nets.

I do agree it needed to be heavily regulated but not an outright ban. It should have been a limited gill net season with quoatas similar to what they do in Alaska. At the very least it should have been a rod n reel quoata.

A regulated commercial industry is no different than a regulated recreational industy. All that matters is total pounds harvested.

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I doubt CCA would ever let it happen

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That's because the CCA is a much larger lobbying group than anything the commercials ever had and had a lot more political pull and money also. This is exactly what I said earlier in this thread. The truth is in what happened. The CCA got their way. Louisiana politics at its finest.

I hope the OB posters are chiming in with input to the Gulf Council. Point out that if the administration is so worried about the snapper and other reef fish populations, they should quit paying all that money to his campaign contributors that are removing all the habitat at a record clip. I wonder where the enviro wacko's are as the explosions while removing rigs full of fish cause massive fatalities. Guess they are too worried about the possibility that Ted Nugent might stick an arrow in one deer to worry about thousands and thousands of fish perishing at the flip of a switch.

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