Somebody had to...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.
Somebody had to...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?
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.
“”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
They’re basically trying to kill the fishing industry in Florida (and probably elsewhere). Remember, this Adminstration is full of radical, anti-fishing “environmentalists” of the type that wanted to rename fish “sea kittens” so that nobody would eat them.
so Castro can catch them all and sell them back to us at inflated prices, no doubt
They are misnamed.
The "south" Atlantic is way below the equator and the "southeast" Atlantic is off the coast of Africa.
They are actually referring to the southeast north Atlantic.
You may notice that the National Hurricane center gets it right...even tough it sounds odd.
Will foreign fishermen play by those rules?
Yes, I’m SURE Chinese, Cuban, Russian, Venezuelan, Mexican, Honduran, Brazilian and Panamanian fishing industries will abide by this ban. I’m just SURE of it./SARC