Very sad day… As far as I understand, commercial is still open. Once again, lumping us in with Florida continues to murder our fishing rights.
On the bright side, now I don’t have to worry about all those hogfish I never catch.
quote:Yes, but that is exactly the point. Why would hogfish shut down in SC when hardly any are taken here? This shows the unfair balance in fisheries management. Florida is allowed to consume 95% of the allocation on EVERY SPECIES... SC acts as a virtual MPA for Florida.
Originally posted by millacdOn the bright side, now I don’t have to worry about all those hogfish I never catch.
Oh I agree, I’m right there with ya. It’s pretty absurd.
Also the reason that we don’t have a red snapper season in SC this year. Florida blew out the entire allocation on their own last year!
Even when I did a lot if off shore fishing I’ve never caught one and only know one person that’s caught one on hook and pole. I wonder how many actual divers we have spearing off our coast? Crazy stuff
It looks like the hogfish issue is being worked on.
Alterna:ve 2 (Preferred). Two separate stocks of hogfish:
(1) GA-NC stock
(2) FLK/EFL stock from the Florida/Georgia state
boundary south to:
2a. The South Atlan/c/Gulf of Mexico Council boundary.
2b. The Monroe/Collier County line.
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Carolina Skiff (old school model)17’ Suz D50
We are trying to get a split to make FL’s stock be managed separately.
If anyone has any concerns or problem with this, please let me know so we can think about it and voice the perspectives to our guys on the SAFMC. Our commercial rep on the SAFMC, Chris Conklin, deals a lot of hogfish out of Seven Seas up here. A lot of FL boats spear them up here as well from what I understand. I know of only a small handful of guys who target them with rod and reel, and of course a large handful who spear them recreationally. The thing about hogs is that they’re very territorial so if you burn up a reef, it’s done for a while. Hogs like a specific type of bottom and specific types of food at certain points in the year and in their lives. Spearing a reef clean really does a lot of damage, and that’s what is hurting us as much as how many are killed in FL waters. Oh yeah… and their NO or bogus data. You should see some of the landings reports for recreationally caught hogs the past few years. Pretty much impossible to be factual, but the government still gets to use the data since it’s “best available.”
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Same old song and dance! We need to vote out any politician that is not fisherman friendly. And clean house on the board!
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PROUD YANKEE
Oyster Baron
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”
We need an educated understanding of not fishing out reefs and looking at every fish as $$$ sign from every fisherman, commercial and recreational. The political problems will never end until there is a massive revolution. Habitat respect and fishing sustainability should be a no brainer
I am pretty sure that every fish is not looked at as a $$$ sign from every fisherman.
Also, when you can only catch a few fish (now) ie. BSB----- the “fishing out” of reefs is not going to happen.
Lots of natural reefs, ledges, live bottom out there. Lots.
This closure is a result of bad data. SAFMC claims that recs harvested 224,566 lbs in March and April alone. To give perspective on how bad this data is. 2012, 2013, and 2014 combined for 280,490 lbs total. Yet they claim nearly 225k lbs in two months? Their basis for closing this fishery is so off I think it’s fictitious.
How about it Mark Brown?? Why don’t you tell us where this data came from? Did you get it from leprechauns and unicorns Or did one of the board members call my best friend David Cupka and ask him what he thought of hog fish? Best available data y’all suck! And people wonder why I stopped going to these (**() meetings
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PROUD YANKEE
Oyster Baron
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”
I send the RFA money…I go and protest in DC…I send my reps lettters…Did any of you get that NOAA survey…? I did and I mailed back a 2 page diatribe about what’s messed up about all of this…No…I haven’t been to any of those meetings because I live 75 prct of my time in Charlotte, NC. Our government is broken people. We are all now pirates that have decisions to make.
Is hog confirmed closed?
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Answered my own question… Never mind.
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