So I got my South Atlantic Update newsletter in the mail today.
Wow, another 3-day Red Snapper season Aug. 23, 24 & 25th for the Recreational folks with an ACL of 9585 fish with a weight of 54,922 lbs. (that is an average of 5.7 lbs per fish)
The Commercial side is opening Aug. 26th with a Trip Limit of 75lbs GW and will extend until the ACL of 21,447 lbs is met, or as it reads, projected to be met.
Also, it says that the RECREATIONAL side exceeded it’s ACL last year with it’s 2, 3-day mini seasons resulting in this years ONE weekend season but Commercial did not so the overall ACL was not exceeded.
So to keep all you folks in line we will only have ONE weekend allowed!!!
The SAFMC is allocating over half a MILLION pounds of the 2013 Red Snapper 611,000 pound Total Allowable Catch to dead discards! Please meet me at the SAFMC scoping meeting on Tuesday, August 13 at the Hilton Garden Inn 5265 International Boulevard North Charleston, SC 29418. The meeting starts at 4:00 pm and I will be there about two hours early to talk with anyone interested in coordinating our efforts to more effectively defend our freedom to fish. I will have postcard petitions opposing the proposed MPAs if anyone wants to help keep places like the Georgetown Hump from being closed to ALL fishing.
I tell you what I would like to do. That is go into that place and jack those bastards up by the neck and whoop their azzez…These criminals are screwing us big time…
We need to focus that kind of frustration into convincing our apathetic fellow fishermen to show up at the council meetings. There must be 300 fishermen in all of South Carolina who are fed up enough with how our fisheries are being “managed” to spend an afternoon defending their freedom to fish. We just need to coordinate our efforts and message so we are not all saying something different. If 300 people all say something totally different, the council will not listen to any of us. If we all stand united like we did with VMS, they WILL listen. Can we all agree we oppose closing traditional fishing grounds and allocating 500,000 pounds of our 2013 Red Snapper quota to dead discards?
I tell you what I would like to do. That is go into that place and jack those bastards up by the neck and whoop their azzez…These criminals are screwing us big time…
I just want a few minutes with Cupka …alone with my shark bat…
I heard somewhere that Florida Wildlife actually monitored the Florida charter fleet dockside and literally saw the entire quota come out of a several Florida counties. Florida had much better weather those weekends in 2012. That’s where they come up with lots of this stuff.
North and central Florida are overrun with Red Snapper to the point fishermen can barely even catch anything else on the bottom. Some people are even catching Red Snapper trolling.