This guy zach was caught night hunting deer in savannah. He should be kicked off the council.
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Originally posted by skinneejquote:From what I have seen the permits are sold.
Originally posted by Fred67Wow, You’ve got to be kidding!!! The only boat I’ve ever chartered or may again is for off shore. So when a Captain retires is his share gone forever or is it like the old tobacco allotments and can be pass along… of course at a huge price.
What I see is greed and money to be made by a select few driving this nonsense.
Looks like all the replies on the comments in the link supplied by skinny are opposed to it.
“If Bruce Jenner can keep his wiener and be called a woman, I can keep my firearms and be considered disarmed.”
If no more are being issued, then they would be worth more than Gold!!
“If Bruce Jenner can keep his wiener and be called a woman, I can keep my firearms and be considered disarmed.”
Yes. One more reason to cut other’s out when you are already sitting pretty with your own permit you paid $25 for! If this isn’t conflict of interest, I don’t know what is!
The people that are in possession of permits now will be able to sell them for as much money as they want or lease them for the going rate every year just like the commercial snapper grouper and charter reef fish/snapper permits are done in the gulf. Its pure bull****. there is a quota. Give everyone a chance and when the quota is met close it. Charter fishing is recreational fishing anyway. However with this they will split charter and rec allotments. Its the natural progression. This is just the first part and it needs to be stopped now.
“We are from the government and we are here to help you” is a bigger lie then “the check is in the mail” or “Of course I will respect you in the morning”.
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Originally posted by ChaosThe people that are in possession of permits now will be able to sell them for as much money as they want or lease them for the going rate every year just like the commercial snapper grouper and charter reef fish/snapper permits are done in the gulf. Its pure bull****. there is a quota. Give everyone a chance and when the quota is met close it. Charter fishing is recreational fishing anyway.
Exactly…
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However with this they will split charter and rec allotments. Its the natural progression. This is just the first part and it needs to be stopped now.
It’s the first step towards catch shares… It must be nice to have a seat on the council, be able to keep other people out of your business, and then be the first one at the pig’s trough when the catch shares are handed out…
Do you think fishery managers listen to fishermen?
After last week’s South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting you have to wonder.
A proposal to limit the number of charter and head boats that could fish in the South Atlantic was met with overwhelming opposition by fishermen.
There were 169 written comments against the proposal and just 3 for it.
Click here to see the comments:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pv2uVo77ZO1R74Z5zPem7iaJlSPe9Oqb_VYrGel44vA/edit#gid=1634903264
Yet, the SAFMC didn’t listen to fishermen and kill the proposal. Instead it voted 9 to 3 to develop a “white paper” to continue to explore charter and head boat limited entry options for the snapper-grouper fishery.
Since the 2007 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which mandated very conservative Annual Catch Limits for all fisheries, “for-hire” fishing effort in the South Atlantic has plunged by nearly 40 percent from a peak of 306,441 angler trips in 2007 to 192,781 trips in 2015.
Click here to see the graph:
http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/sustainablefishing/mailings/48/attachments/original/For-hire_effort_II__2007-2015.pdf?1481399553
Additionally, this year there were only six more snapper-grouper for-hire permits issued from North Carolina through east Florida to Key West, than in 2009.
It would be one thing if for-hire limited entry was about fishery sustainability, but it’s not.
This seems to be more and more about picking winners and losers in the for-hire fishery that will set up a “stock market” for permits and not about listening to the overwhelming opposition from fishermen.
This is exactly what happened in the Gulf of Mexico with for-hire limited entry. Click here to read an email from the National Association of Charterboat Operators to the SAFMC that describes the limited entry disaster in the Gulf:
[url]http://www.nacocharters.org/news/alerts/1149-proposed-limited-entry