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An Issue We Can’t Afford To Ignore

The Gulf Council and National Marine Fisheries are beginning to seriously look at another “issue” they have with bottom longliners.  They are making noise about closing the fishery or instituting more senseless regulation, citing undocumented and, I believe, hugely exaggerated numbers of loggerheads supposedly killed by bottom longlines.  They appear to be absolutely willing to begin to regulate what bait we can or can’t  use and even shut down the fishery completely based on these figures and on information gathered in totally unrelated fisheries.  We need to watch this situation and take it very seriously.  [Read more →]

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Boattracs proves worthless in first emergency

Well we just had the first real emergency on board my own boat since we were forced to install and pay for the ridiculously expensive Boattracs service. When we put the thing on there, one of the ways I justified it to myself and forced myself to accept the fact we were being treated like criminals and forced to carry these things was to tell myself, “Well, at least we’ll have them in case of an emergency.”

Right. [Read more →]

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Some serious politicking going on…

Man, put a question that has the potential to make a few people “grouper millionaires” up for a vote and watch ‘em scramble out of the woodwork. [Read more →]

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Well, I hate to say it, but “I told you so.”

Seems like only yesterday but it was actually all of two weeks and two days ago when I wrote this cynical little comment:

There is a period for public comment that is open until January 2, 2009.  I’d suggest you take advantage of that period and make your feelings heard, but personally, I’m getting tired of going through the same thing over and over again while they make it obvious that the only reason they open public comment periods is because they were told to and that they have no intention of listening to or paying the slightest bit of attention to anything the public, particularly that criminal bunch that call themselves “Commercial Fishermen”, have to say.

Well, read the Fishery News blog and you will see that, unfortunately, the NMFS just couldn’t wait to prove me right.

To quote Gilbert Gottfried…. WHAT THE F#%&*!K ? [Read more →]

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