Posted on 12/15/2022 11:17:34 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
Proposed regulation aims to prevent boats from hitting endangered right whales
"This would be the greatest regulatory overreach in American maritime law" — that’s how Frank Hugelmeyer describes a proposal by the Biden administration to limit the speed of all motorboats over 35 feet from Florida to Massachusetts. "Not only are they creating a serious safety issue, they are creating a massive negative economic impact."
Hugelmeyer is president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), and he is just one of a growing number of voices expressing outrage over the proposal put forward by the U.S. Commerce Department under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
"It’s stupid," said Jeff Angers, the president of the Center for Sportfishing Policy. "It’s not what government is supposed to do."
The far-reaching regulation would restrict speed to 10 knots or 11.5 miles per hour for all boats over 35 feet — for up to seven months out of the year and up to 100 miles out at sea for most of the East Coast.
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Dredge every waterway being reported as the scene of a boating accident resulting in the loss of guns ?
WHO is pulling Biden’s strings on this? SlowJoe doesn’t drive a boat.
Guess? That same fanatics that want to control every aspect of your life. The Nanny State at its worst.
The imbeciles have just about totally killed the lobster industry in Maine over this BS.
These bassturds destroy anything and everything they touch.
When is enough, enough? /s
This is “Illegal authoritarian action in defiance of individual rights and law”
“Nagative econ9mic impact”
Feature. Not a bug.
Hmm...overtaking situation. Overtaking vessel must toot once and alter course to starboard or toot twice and alter course to port. Or don’t toot at all and, well...
It’s the border that needs a speed limit stupid.
If the boats fly the BLM or rainbow flag they were surely be exempt....
Instead, it should be mandated that the bows of all motorized
watercraft should be retrofitted with big fluffy "whale-pillows".
Turn the collisions into a friendly hug!
/sarc
Man, that sucks!
Beat me to it!! Sometimes search works and sometimes it doesn’t
Depending on the LOA, a sailing vessel could get over 10 knots in the right conditions.
Words escape me on this one.
To act as occasion says is proper: To Port – or Starboard – Back – or Stop her!
Law Of Gross Tonnage applies...
How would such a regulation be enforced? One summer many years ago I worked on an albacore boat out of San Pedro. Most of the time there were no other boats in sight.
And wouldn’t a pursuing l.e.o. boat chasing a scofflaw be just as dangerous to the right whales as another speeding boat? Won’t anyone think of the whales?
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