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tombanjo
03-13-2010, 08:54 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/11/11greenwire-obama-admin-jumps-to-squelch-rumors-of-us-fish-65275.html

Furious backtracking by NOAA and Lubchenco after the initail espn piece broke. Left unsaid in this liberal NYT slant is that it's NOAA's goal to regulate the hell out of the industry and incrementally achieve the original goal of shutting it down. Now they'll have the typical dog & pony "summit committee" where they'll pretend to hear all sides and then do what they want anyway.
jigman90
03-13-2010, 10:31 AM
It took ESPN to finally shake things up? guess we neded more friends from ESPN! maybe the sssf should invite the writer from ESPN to there dinner
bigjamaica
03-13-2010, 01:31 PM
It took ESPN to finally shake things up? guess we neded more friends from ESPN! maybe the sssf should invite the writer from ESPN to there dinner

NMFS Denies ban on fishing:

Black Sea Bass rebuilt:
Closed for 180 days:

Snapper: Closed 180 days

Grouper: closed 180 days

MPA's in Fla & Calif, now coming your way.

If that is not the beginning of a ban on fishing what would you call it?
1captainron
03-13-2010, 05:56 PM
I'm sure any of us from SSFFF or RFA would love to be a part of any meetings with Ms. Lubchenko, but it ain't gonna happen!!! The format of our future is already set in place.
What was the quote I read "You can sell your Catch Shares as you go out of business"!!!!!
How pompous a statement, and yet no repercussions....How about, No, "I didn't mean it that way", it was taken out of context, I'm sorry!
Too many people control our lives, taxes go up... you pay. Fee's for nothing are implemented, you pay, when does it end and when will it be right??
At what point is enough, enough?
Just got back from Vacation and already, I'm stressed to the max!!!
Do you know what your future is? I don't, I can assume that it's not pretty and no matter how hard I work, it's all for not...live with that every waking day.....Capt.Ron
Capt Sal
03-14-2010, 06:58 PM
It is beyond enough.Extra fees local species limits reduced to nothing.Now there talking about gas at $3.oo or more per gallon.You know diesel will be even more.How do you pass that off to your customers.Time we get a break.Thank god we have some good organizations fighting for us.Trying to stay positive.looking forward to a good bass season!:)