Trigger closes 7/7/13. Reopens 1/14. This is inflating the price of fish and your bill when you go out to eat. Soon only fisherman will eat fish. Oh but they won’t have jobs.
Rant over. Thanks for listening.
Karma is 360 degrees
Some got to win, some got to lose…
Really?
Thank You All Knowing SAFMC!!!
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NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Wow. Gray or Queen? or both
Is it just commercial or recreational as well?
Grey. Not sure about recreational but commercial is closing. May still see queen as grouper bi-product.
Karma is 360 degrees
Some got to win, some got to lose…
here is the bulletin:
http://www.safmc.net/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=GxAtpq%2BbIoc%3D&tabid=139
It says all commercial harvest must be landed + sold by July 7. Recreational is not affected…YET. That does not mean you shouldn’t be getting mad!!!
They will come for us next.
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Originally posted by AzhiaziaMIs it just commercial or recreational as well?
Right now it is just commercial and Grey only.
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: June 28, 2013
727-824-5305, FAX 727-824-5308 FB13-057
Commercial Harvest of Gray Triggerfish in
South Atlantic Waters Closes on July 7
Commercial harvest of gray triggerfish in South Atlantic waters will close, at 12:01 a.m. (local time) on July 7, 2013. Commercial harvest will reopen at 12:01 a.m. (local time) on January 1, 2014. The 2013 commercial catch limit is 305,262 pounds whole weight. Reports indicate that commercial landings are rapidly approaching the 2013 catch limit.
The operator of a vessel with a federal commercial permit for snapper-grouper that is landing gray triggerfish for sale must have landed and bartered, traded, or sold such gray triggerfish prior to 12:01 a.m. (local time), July 7, 2013. The prohibition on sale does not apply to sale or purchase of gray triggerfish that were harvested, landed ashore, and sold prior to 12:01 a.m. (local time), July 7, 2013, and held in cold storage by a dealer or processor.
During the closure:
?h Harvest or possession of gray triggerfish is limited to the recreational bag and possession limits.
?h Sale and purchase of gray triggerfish is prohibited.
?h The closure applies in both state and federal waters.
?h The bag limit is zero for captain and crew on charter vessels and headboats.
This closure is necessary to protect the snapper-grouper population.
Southeast Fishery Bulletin
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
26 Regulator FS “Miss Ella Pearl”
wow… just wow. not good news 
“mr keys”
Other than commercial fisherman, who will certainly be affected, who will this really impact? Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever ordered triggerfish at a restaurant. It isn’t affecting recreational fisherman. Am I missing something? No, I am not missing that some think all decisions by SAFMC are bad. Other than that…?
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Am I missing something?
I think maybe you are missing something.
It’s not just commercial closure for triggers. It is “the predicted” coming to past.
Commercial guys will fish for whatever they can catch to put money in their pockets and feed their families. Red Snapper is closed, BSB and grouper quotas are so low they can’t fish for them but a couple of weeks. Lets don’t forget B-liners, and the list just goes on and on. Now triggers are closing early. Whenever they close one species the pressure gets put on another. If they think triggers are being pressured too much by commercial guys, then they will reduce quotas on both sides…Commercial and Rec.
That scenario is what I mean by “The Predicted”. It’s not rocket science. Looks like triggers could possibly be the next “crisis”.
The SAFMC is out of control. They have shown that they are incapable of managing our fisheries. Reduce the bureaucracy, shut the agency down and funnel the money that was being spent to run SAFMC into each state’s DNR. Let the fisheries be managed by DNR all the way out to the 200 mile mark.
OccamsRaiser, most of the SAFMC decisions are bad as they are intended to advance agendas like catch shares and area closures by creating over a MILLION pounds of regulatory discards that are deducted from our quotas every year. Thousands of triggerfish are going to be discarded as fishermen target co-occurring species. The simple short-term solution is to align opening dates of co-occurring species and MANAGE each quota with appropriate possession limits that avoid extended closures. We could target fish with higher limits while still keeping most of what we accidentally catch with lower limits. Please consider submitting public comments for Regulatory Amendment 14 supporting this idea of actually MANAGING quotas according to MSA mandates. safmc@safmc.net
RDW, your idea of state’s rights as our U.S. Constitution supports is what we need to push for as a long-term solution. The multiple layers of our nation’s bloated BILLION dollar fishery bureaucracy are so corrupted and dysfunctional that the vast majority of citizens they rule have lost all confidence in them.