"Uh heh huh heh, you said 'snapper'"
Posted on 06/09/2010 12:00:44 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
ORLANDO, Fla -- Fishermen will be prohibited from catching red snapper and some other snapper and grouper species in the southeast Atlantic in a nearly 5,000-square-mile zone off the coasts of Georgia and Florida under a measure passed by a federal fisheries management council Wednesday.
Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted 9-4 in favor of the ban which supporters hope eventually will restore the red snapper's population over the next three decades.
Opponents, though, doubt studies showing that the population is overfished and said Florida fishermen already have been squeezed by restrictions in the Gulf of Mexico due to the BP oil spill.
Wednesday's vote extends for an indeterminate time an interim red snapper ban that was to expire in December.
Opponents said the council at least should have waited to pass the measure until December, when...
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The oil spill in the Gulf will have HUGE ramifications on the fishing industry. So what does the government do? They have a meeting in Orlando and extend a ban on snapper and grouper fishing indefinitely. From FL to SC. This includes the entire FL shoreline.
Local fisherman have provided much anecdotal evidence the snapper population is healthy and asked that the decision be made when the next count is done in December. Denied.
I truly think this Obama administration is evil incarnate. The Florida representatives, Republican AND Democrat, better scream about this.
I swear he’s trying to orchestrate a famine. That’s what all his heroes have done.
How about just getting it over with and banning employment, of any form, all through the country.
Scratch another one for China.... all your sea food will now be imported from their ample supplies.
It’s that hopey, changey thingy dontcha know.
As a non-fisherman, who knows virtually nothing about the subject - either commercial fishing or sport fishing - possibly someone could enlighten me; when you toss your line, or net, into the water, how on Earth can you control what takes the bait and/or gets caught?
It seems quite unreasonable to me for anyone to expect that you can somehow shoo red snapper away while allowing other fish to get caught...
Bummer. I love red snapper.
"Uh heh huh heh, you said 'snapper'"
You can catch them, but you have to throw them back... or eat them really quickly.
Somebody had to...
The feds are just exploiting the oil spill. The gulf states have been in court for years with the feds over red snapper limits and areas allowed to be fished.
That is what, just American companies?
Is our coast guard going out to defend the fish zones?
So does this apply to recreational fisherman/women? I love red snapper. We used to catch them down in the Keys mangroves all the time. Is there anything at all Obama doesn’t want to control?
I swear he’s trying to orchestrate a famine. That’s what all his heroes have done.”
Look long & hard at Senate Bill 510.
It bans gardens & all the raising of “anything Mother Nature” provides. No bartering-selling-transporting-giving-taking-using-etc etc.
So the ban is for 30 freaking years? I scanned the article and never actually saw a time limit.
Let's see, Obama lets the oil spill go without doing crap, he bans drilling off the coast, he won't help stop illegal immigration on the southern border, and now he bans fishing for snapper. The conspiracy side of me wonders if he wants to hammer the red states on purpose. hmmm
I don’t know how you do it in the South, but out here, if you reel in a snapper (from about 60 feet down), they have some sort of embolism. I can’t see how they would survive being tossed back.
Florida may also take a big hit in its tourism industry because of this disaster.
The rec fisherman in Washington state have been dealing with local gov restrictions that are equally bizarre.
Shrimp “season” in the sound lasts one day. In the Canadian portion of the sound they can crab and shrimp year round.
Oysters and clams on the pacific beaches at the Washington/Oregon border are only “tainted” on the Washington side.
Here in The Gulf you can get your Red Snapper......already blackened!..................
“”Regulators also plan a long-term ban on commercial and recreational fishing for all 73 managed snapper and grouper species, including common fish such as sheepshead. They don’t want people fishing for those accidentally catching and killing red snapper.
The ban makes those species off limits in federal waters — from about 3.45 miles from shore and extending out about 230 miles — from Florida to the Carolinas.””
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100609/NEWS01/6090347/1006/Red+snapper+fishing+ban+could+come+today
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