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SAFMC - Fishery news "Red Snapper" and Bottom Closures
With litigation and legislation ensuing to bring some common sence to the issue
of NOAA's proposed closures, thw PEW foundation and NOAA's directors are
pushing some new tactic's to try to counter any reprieve for the millions of anglers
if things go the way they should.
Changes are now being proposed to "National Standard 2" which would mitigate
any favorable decision for the anglers, and allow total control to be decided by the
fisheries, without any checks and balances, nor outside oversight. They also would
again be "forced to take action", even if the flexibility of the MS act is given. This is
where the "catch shares" and "quota's" that certain groups have pushed for now come
back to bite all anglers where it hurts most.
Here is the link to a site that is sending a petition to "fix" this proposed revision,
before it is enacted:
http://www.deep-blue-sea.org:8080/examples/servlet/SAFMC_NatStd
In other interesting news, the Carolina's again seem to be on the beneffiting side
on the council's home base. Though willing to shut down fishing for commercial
and recreational anglers alike, despite the tragic economic consequences to
the communities in places like Georgia and Florida, they are not willing to allow
this to happen in their home district! You can google some of the news reports
from the recent March 1-5 SAFMC meeting. The members opposing the closures
in their district but OK with other area's being closed have created a split decision,
that could force a decision to be put off to the latest SEDAR report December 2010.
The upcomming Orlando meeting was supposed to mark the approval of the closures,
even before the stock assesment in Dec, though the enforcement of the closures
would not occur until the report is in the council's hands! Sound fishy to you? IT IS!
Remember who is NOAA's leader, and who the Commerce Secutary that sign's off
on these changes are? It is certainly an uphill battle trying to fight PEW's billions,
and their handpicked representitives. Since the Snapper and Grouper closure, the
catch's have increased noticably, from already good levels. Take a look at some of my
pic's, and youll see that were not talking about little, young fish either. I am not even
fishing where the large and numerous stocks are, since we can't keep them, but like
the Gulf, they are quickly moving into other heavily fished area's, and their stock is
quickly growing. It only goes to show, that despite the claim that the "Older, Good
Breeders" are rare and almost deplered, is not stopping the Red Snapper stocks
from growing quickly in recent years.
The "stock assesment" with the closures is taking place under the direction of the
group that has already fortold its enactment. There is no angler input on this. There
is no independant assesment allowed. Peer review is only allowed by council appointed
people. There is no consideration to social or economic impacts on the communities.
There is no consideration to the Eco-Imbalance that WILL be created by this. Again,
smell fishy?
Henry
"Wile E Coyote"
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Obama: The Will Of The People Be Damned - I’LL Decide Who Can Go Fishing
*Now* he means to ration recreational fishing and boating, folks
Posted by Dave Poff (haystack) (Profile)
Tuesday, March 9th at 2:44PM EST
67 Comments
It all started here this morning:
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
I had to read that 3 times before it sank in…and then I did a little research. Guess what old Barack (I’ve never had a fishing rod in my hand a day in my life) Obama has been up to since last year? Plotting a Federal takeover of all our bodies of water (freshwater…saltwater…doesn’t matter), in an effort to set up MORE bureaucracies and circumvent the rights of the States to determine fair use and access rules amongst themselves based on the local interests of everyone involved.
If he was out to ban recreational fishing this piece would be easy enough to write; scream a little, stomp my feet, vow he’ll have to pry my fishing rod from my cold dead hands, etc…and be done with it. Problem is, this is much darker and more corrupt than that.
The White House plan would establish 9 regional planning bodies (bureaucracies) whose job would be to bring “Federal, State, and Tribal Partners together” to look for ways to “decrease user conflicts; improve planning and regulatory efficiencies and decrease their associated costs and delays; and preserve critical ecosystem function and services.”
It should come as no surprise that the Administration is no longer accepting comments or input from the public (though you should click through to see some of the doozies that WERE accepted), and it should come as no surprise that a member of Obama’s Administration (Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator) has some interesting ties with a couple private charities and goofy greenie groups whose interests will be very well served by a Federal takeover of our various bodies of water:
While she possesses impressive academic and professional credentials as a marine biologist, she also has close ties to those who produced the November document. For example, she was a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund, and served on the Pew Oceans Commission.”
More below the “who needs jobs and successful multi-billion dollar industries anymore, anyway?” fold…
More info here, and a call for some Asian Carp-killing love here. Don’t miss the policy pdf here if you really want your head to explode. Read between the lines folks…this will lock down oil exploration faster and farther than the moratorium Congress JUST let expire ever did, and allows the greenies to set policy for fishing AND boating (at the expense of millions of jobs and billions of boating and fishing industry dollars).
ALWAYS worry when you read this from Obama’s people: “The planning process would be fully transparent and participatory.” and don’t forget to laugh out loud when you follow up with this timeless classic: “Places Science-Based Information at the Heart of Decision-Making. Scientific data, information and knowledge, as well as relevant traditional knowledge, will be the underpinning of the regionally developed plans.”
How’s that “settled” climate change science mumbo jumbo working out again?
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