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Thunderstruck (1/30/2008)This ought to be good. Lets hear it. What do you think.I want to know who is doing a head count on the snapper. Why are the commercial fisherman not really affected.Now the way I see it(just an opinion) back years ago we did not have 15 to 20000 public and private reefs in the gulf like we do now. The fish are more spread out. But its like everything else, some of the commercial guys like gill netters may play by the rules. But there are alot of them that rape the water for all its worth. I think that to solve the problem we have to start with the major players. I can't see the weekend warriors being the main cause of the problem!!! To top this off there is article in Florida Sportfishing Mag. that addresses part of this . To rebuild a fishery you also have to rebuild bait fish stocks.Come on lets hear your opinions.
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The fish really arent that spread out .We did have thousands of wrecks twenty years ago although we didnt have differential GPS it was loran and it wasnt just drive to the fish symbol and fish, if you didnt know were a spot was you couldnt fish it . There were no ZAPPERS WITH HIGH POWER RADAR( YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE LAZY ) and no artificial reef rules .There is some good and bad to that.
Anyways the Gulf of Mexico is about 600,000 square miles only about 4% of that has relief structure most of which is very low bottom that changes almost daily with storms and currents covering and uncovering.
In Pensacola we use a very,very small portion of what we have especially state waters.
People complain about commmercial fisherman fishing public reefs and ask me what can be done about it, the only thing that can be done is to state focusing on the 9 miles that they cant fish so that the 9 months that we cant catch Red Snapper they cant either in State Waters.This also would help the bait fishery out.But the flip side to that is when you ask them to show up at one of the meeting to discuss the issue they always have other plans or dont have time to send an email to the propper authorities.
Thats wht I started the RFRA to seek out some people who are willing to fight for their rights and try to fix issues instead of telling someone the famous qoute of the lazy peices of crap.
<U>"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO"</U>
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<U>"if i were you I would tell them this"</U>