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Fishery Council Approves Red Snapper Ban
WFTV-TV ^ | 9-June-2010 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: ban; fishing; florida; snapper
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To: ilovesarah2012

Red snapper tend to be reef fish.

Mangrove snappers ,maybe?


61 posted on 06/09/2010 3:58:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

How dare they prevent fishermen from fishing them to extinction.


62 posted on 06/09/2010 4:54:48 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: VeniVidiVici

“Local fisherman have provided much anecdotal evidence the snapper population is healthy”

Yeah. And cod fishermen in Canada said the stocks of cod were healthy. Guess what. The cod are gone and are never coming back.


63 posted on 06/09/2010 4:56:42 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: nomorelurker

That doesn’t seem particularly conducive to increasing the native snapper population.


64 posted on 06/09/2010 5:05:36 PM PDT by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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To: chessplayer
How dare they prevent fishermen from fishing them to extinction.

Yeah, right. And just in time for the oil spill in the Gulf to wipe out the rest of the industry. Why don't they just ban all fishing now and save all of it from ...what? I'm sure an indefinite ban on everything would save the world. Here hold my hand and sing, "We are the world ...

65 posted on 06/09/2010 5:14:18 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (What's black and white and red all over? - OBAMA)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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.

66 posted on 06/09/2010 5:32:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Soon the Goobermit will have us eating Soylent Green.


67 posted on 06/09/2010 6:11:37 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: VeniVidiVici

don’t suppose any restaurants, etc. that serve or sell this fish will take it off the market. or will they import it and act like local events don’t effect them?


68 posted on 06/09/2010 6:25:14 PM PDT by bigheadfred (I said free association. Not freely associate.)
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To: Jack Hammer

You can’t control what bites on your hook hanging outta sight. Problem with snapper is that they are a bottom fish. Fish have air bladders that help them control their bouyancy and bottom fishes air bladders expand when brought to the surface. If that bladder is not properly punctured to release that air, the fish is killed. If the air isn’t released it struggles to get back to the bottom, wears itself out and becomes dinner for something bigger.

A couple of years ago the FWC instituted new rules requiring amongst other things, that a bladder venting tool be onboard and used for released snapper. Problem is is that training isn’t required to learn how to properly do this procedure and fish are being killed instead.

I live in the NW Panhandle and Red Snapper here is the most plentiful fish there is. So thick they actually become a nuisance once your limit is caught. If your spearfishing like I usually do you have to swat them out of your way.

Does the fishery have different rules for Red Snapper here than south Florida? NO! Their thinking is that if they over populate here they’ll spread southward replenishing those areas. Fact is fish don’t migrate that way, they move south to north.


69 posted on 06/09/2010 6:28:54 PM PDT by diverteach (D.C. has become Jonestown.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

“Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted 9-4 in favor of the ban”

Who are these people, and how do they wield this sort of power over our lives?


70 posted on 06/09/2010 7:14:39 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Freedom Watch: fight for freedom with everything you have.)
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To: Red Badger

LOL!


71 posted on 06/09/2010 8:36:58 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: VeniVidiVici
I work for the largest food service provider in the US. We were updated on this topic today.

Finfish - grouper, flounder, tuna, and snapper production, are to have minimal to light impacts due to the gulf oil spill.

72 posted on 06/09/2010 9:02:50 PM PDT by califamily4W
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To: diverteach; nomorelurker; Texas resident; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Thanks; you’ve substantially clarified things – i. e., the government, once again, is full of horsepucky.


73 posted on 06/09/2010 9:27:44 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: califamily4W
Finfish - grouper, flounder, tuna, and snapper production, are to have minimal to light impacts due to the gulf oil spill.

As in the amount you get from the Gulf or that supply overall will still be able to meet demand with little to no cost increase?

74 posted on 06/09/2010 10:35:29 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (What's black and white and red all over? - OBAMA)
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To: VeniVidiVici

From the gulf region.


75 posted on 06/10/2010 6:28:39 AM PDT by califamily4W
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To: Rio
I can’t see how they would survive being tossed back.

Oregon's been dealing with crap like this for years. There's a gizmo...essentilly an upside down barbless hook with a weight on the bottom that takes the fish back to depth in a hurry and allows it to swim away.

Jane Lubchenco was a NOAA bigwig here before Obama named her NOAA Grand Poobah. This may be her doing.

76 posted on 06/10/2010 9:12:03 AM PDT by gundog (Outrage is anger taken by surprise. Nothing these people do surprises me anymore.)
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To: FlyingEagle
Soon the Goobermit will have us eating Soylent Green.

FReepers will be Soylent Green.

77 posted on 06/10/2010 9:16:59 AM PDT by gundog (Outrage is anger taken by surprise. Nothing these people do surprises me anymore.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Well it looks like things are going just as planned. Pew Trust, EDF, and The Nature Conservancy have been pushing for this for quite some time. The Gulf will be next. The effort is to push legislation to bring about marine spatial planning, payments for ecosystems services within the framework of trading platform for the natural resources of our oceans.

It should look familiar to many freepers. Can you say “cap and trade” for fisheries. The interesting thing is the groups are working as partners with BP. The organization at the root of it all once again is the United Nations. Take a look at this http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/installing-meters-at-the-beach-10758/

vob


78 posted on 06/10/2010 1:39:23 PM PDT by Vob (free radical community organizer)
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To: takenoprisoner

They are hard lobbied by the enviros. Some years back the councils decimated our local fishing industry with the net ban. It’s the commercial florida fishermen who should be calling the shots on fishing limits, they are the ones who know the territory.


79 posted on 06/10/2010 6:12:11 PM PDT by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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