If you haven’t seen this article with accompanying video…you must watch it. This is government at its worst…regulating the harvest of red snapper, then mandating oil rig demolition that kills as many as 10,000 snapper PER RIG DEMOLISHED! CCA is calling for a moratorium. I suggest we all get off our duffs and contact our congressmen and senators in Washington and demand it be stopped. These rigs are habitat for many species…and this is senseless, wanton destruction of habitat and fish. It’s time to contact our voice in Congress:
The federal mandate to demolish abandoned oil rigs in the Gulf at the expense of red snapper and other valuable fish species plus destroying these valuable recreational fishing havens for all time is, in a word, an abomination.
If you and your staff would please take time to view the video posted to Sport Fishing magazine’s web site, you will be sickened by the wanton destruction of fish and habitat.
Please Senator xxxxx…I implore you to demand a moratorium on this tragedy. This is government at its worst. So many who have called for keeping these rigs in place as a boon to recreational fishing have been ignored too long.
In addition, the red snapper regulations themselves are riddled with errors. It’s beyond time to remove fisheries management from under the Department of Commerce and place it under the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Only then will recreational anglers have a true voice in management decisions.
Thank you for your service to South Carolina and the nation. I ask that you step in and represent the voting public from South Carolina who are recreational anglers.
in most of the gulf of mexico around the oil rigs, red snapper are the equivalent of black sea bass for carolina. they reduced the daily take to 2 per person, and as a result, you can sit by a rig and catch them 2 at a time 24" each all day. its so bad that you have to move to catch anything else (sound familiar?). i am not saying that the destruction is good, by any means. but it may be another opportunity to pry the politicians’ fingers off the fishing mismanagement that is choking out the healthy ecosystems.
now, if you think the fishing is good now, wait until oil rigs start popping up on the shelf here. hopefully it wont be too much longer!
Big Water Adventures show the other day showed them catching them sabiki style… I think he pulled up 6 in one pull. Big ole fat ones too. I wish we had snapper like that near by.
Is there any way to repost this for more people to see on the Charleston offshore and discussion page?
ote]Originally posted by wildlifesc
If you haven’t seen this article with accompanying video…you must watch it. This is government at its worst…regulating the harvest of red snapper, then mandating oil rig demolition that kills as many as 10,000 snapper PER RIG DEMOLISHED! CCA is calling for a moratorium. I suggest we all get off our duffs and contact our congressmen and senators in Washington and demand it be stopped. These rigs are habitat for many species…and this is senseless, wanton destruction of habitat and fish. It’s time to contact our voice in Congress:
