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Monday, February 21, 2011
SAFMC, MAFMC and PFMAC Fishing Closures
I was just going over the latest information from the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council.? The SAFMC, headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of eight regional fishery management councils in the United States. They are responsible for the conservation and management of fish stocks within the federal 200-mile limit off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and east Florida to Key West.
Literally all grouper species and red snapper are closed to any type of fishing.? Grouper season is scheduled to reopen in April.? Red snapper is closed indefinitely.
Now I see that they are holding more "public input" meetings to look at regulating dolphin (mahi mahi), wahoo and cobia.
If they close the season on theses fish it will pretty well stop most anglers from even attempting to fish.? They continue to pursue a total bottom fishing closure in an area from Cape Canaveral, Florida north to Georgia.
The environmentalists, PETA, and others are simply sitting back and watching with great joy as this takes place.? Their anti-everything - including fishing - agenda is being accomplished without them lifting a finger.
Folks, fishing as we knew it - and as we know it now - is literally being regulated into oblivion.
Check ou the SAFMC webpage and see when public meetings are scheduled in your area.? If you want to watch a circus, watch these people as they supposedly take our comments and suggestions to heart.? In reality, they already have a plan. They are simply trying to see if anyone can shoot holes in it.? To date, not one of their conservation plans - amendments - has changed from its original form as a result of any of these meetings that I have attended.
By the way, the Mid Atlantic (MAFMC) and Pacific (PFMC) are no different.? They are shutting down fisheries in their jurisdictions just as quickly.
Here's a question for you - when will it stop?? IMHO it will stop when they have completely closed all recreational fishing and limited commercial fishing to fish farming only.? I bought a slab of grouper this last week - $16.95 a pound...
Tackle Cleaning Tips
While cleaning your tackle you hear 'Sproiinggg!!' That's the sound that little tiny spring makes as it exits the reel you just opened up and it leaves no clue as to the proper location of that spring within the reel. All reels have them, and sometimes it seems the makers put the reel together just so these springs will jump out of place. And is it just coincidence that the springs are close to impossible to put back? Read more...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
11th Annual �El Cheapo� Sheepshead Tournament Coming Up
The Jacksonville Offshore Sport Fishing Club's 11th Annual "El Cheapo" Sheepshead Tournament out of the Mayport Public Boat Ramp at Mike Scanlan Park in Jacksonville, Florida, will be held on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Entry fee is $60.00 per boat.? First place is a 2011 15' center console Carolina Skiff with a 30 HP 4 stroke Mercury on a galvanized trailer from Wilson Trailers, plus a replica sheepshead taxidermy mount from Strike Zone Fishing. Cash and other prizes will be awarded through fifteen places, plus five $100.00 mystery weight awards. Contact Tournament Director Frank Joura; via e-mail: FJoura@bellsouth.net. for more information. They expect over 400 boats this year! To learn more, visit the tournament website by clicking here...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Closed season under the Black Sea in the South Atlantic
If they fished offshore North Carolina to the Florida Keys this week past and captured any black sea bass, they were fortunate. ?, but you do not plan to do South Atlantic fishery management Council (SAFMC) has done it once more - this time of closing, effective February 12, season low of the Black Sea until 1 June this year. ? applies to the Federal waters of 3 to 200 miles off the coast of again. ?.
Here is the situation in my back yard now: ? closed all harvest are spotted corvina, all varieties of grouper, snapper vermilion, snook and snapper ? red trip to offshore means burning much fuel and literally no fish to bring to the table.
Following close on the heels of all this are the pending changes from the SAFMC within bag and seasons for Dolphin (mahi mahi), wahoo and cobia.
Anti-fishing people and environmentalists are quietly from all this as a victory in his efforts to totally eliminate fishing in any form. ? If sit and regretted the situation without contact with their legislative staff to express their outrage, their fishing rights will be slowly and completely finished before their eyes.
Lift your team and begin to write and call NOW. ? fishing freedom future may depend on your call!
Monday, February 14, 2011
North Carolina's CCA seeks end to bottom trawling
In response to a rash of massive deaths striped bass along the coast, North Carolina in the CCA asked the Committee on fisheries marine CN (MFC) to eliminate trawling of any kind as an art of allowable fishing for striped bass. Incidents, photographed and recorded on video by sports fishermen in the area, were the result of business operations of trawls in waters of the State and the outrage has been up and down the East Coast. North Carolina's CCA requested decisive action at the meeting of MFC in mounds of pine, 10 and 11 February
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