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Grouper
 
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| Alright guys, we need everyones help. I know that there are several threads already on the forum concerning this issue, but it is important enough that I wanted to put another thread up. On February 7, 2008 the Marine Fisheries/FWC will decide the fate of Red Snapper fishing in the state waters of Florida. They are considering cutting Red Snapper season in state waters to June-September (it currently runs from April 15-October 31) This would be a net loss of 3 months of Snapper season. They are also considering adopting a 2 fish per person bag limit (it is currently 4 is state waters.) Everyone that is free on Thursday February 7, 2008 needs to go to the FWC meeting in Panama City. We will meet at the RFRA building on the corner of C street and Pine Street by Joe Patti's at 4:45am. Through the generous donations of several sponsors in the community they will have several Good Times tour busses ready to take everyone to Panama City where the Marine Fisheries and FWC will be having their last meeting for public comment on the upcoming Snapper vote. We all know that Red Snapper are over running every wreck in the Gulf. If you value the Red Snapper fishery here in the Panhandle of Florida, you need to be at this meeting. I'll see everyone bright and early Thursday morning! Rich
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| Rich, Count me in. I will talk to Paul to see what materials we can bring. Unfortunately Clay's video when down Sunday or we could have used some of it. For anyone who sees this, if you have a chance to get out, I will give you the numbers to the area in Florida Girl where i dropped Craasch on Monday. At one spot there was 80-100' vis and a school of small snapper as far as he could see. The other turned out to be an old tractor tire that was covered with a 15-20' tall school of them.
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Grouper
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| Why is it that there is a new article every other day in the Pensacola News Journal supporting the snapper closure. The one in today's paper clearly states that Florida should not fight the federal regulations and charter boats need to focus on other fish until the snapper stocks are re-built. That's kind of hard to do when there is a huge ball of snapper covering every wreck in the northern gulf. Every article states what scientist thinks is going to happen, we aren't going to win the fight without the help of actual biologist and correct data. Right now if state biologist said there are absolutely no red snapper left and he had scientific data to prove it, most of the idiotic public would believe him.
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Grouper
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all we currently have to rely on to counter these absurd claims is video evidence to the contrary. but apparently that doesn't matter. You can film a million snapper (literally,) but until NMF uses their "scientific" method of asking everyone what they caught, and counting red snapper on sand bottom to determine that there are millions of snapper in the gulf, then it doesn't count. This is why we have to go fight this crap.
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http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/galleries/usergallery.asp?gallery=1256 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations James 1:2 If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will lay hold of me Psalms 139: 9-10
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