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The National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) is about to make yet another move against the Recreational
Fisherman!
The NMFS is lead by
life long politicians and government advisors
(credentials)
who have created impractical policies that obviously lean toward
protecting the commercial fisherman such as the Pelagic longline
fleet and take away from the Rod & Reel Fisherman and the Biomass of
the species they have been commissioned to protect! Lobbyist
from Commercial fishing and extreme conservation organizations (so
called Tree Huggers) have funneled millions of dollars toward their
cause and this has lead to the policies that favor those interest
groups even though they are less than
10%
of the fisheries user group! We
NEED
to make a stand
NOW,
so Please email the following contacts and let them know they won't
get away with their biased approach to regulations and that we will
not let them deplete our Fisheries due to their weak stance with the
small kill all commercial fishing industry!
*NEW Regulations for
Recreational Fisherman ONLY:
NMFS is planning to place
a 250 fish limit on Killed Blue Marlin.
NMFS is planning to place
Zero kill on White Marlin.
NMFS is planning to make
circle hooks mandatory for any type of bait fishing
(this will almost eliminate
the by-catch we need like Wahoo, Mahi ands Tuna).
NMFS has stated that
recreational anglers are responsible for 2% of Billfish mortality.
NMFS has stated that
commercial fisherman are responsible for 98% of Billfish mortality.
NMFS has no further
regulations to place on the commercial depletion of our resource and
hasn't since 1998.
NMFS stated that
recreational anglers, including tournaments killed 1,200 Billfish
last year in the entire Atlantic.
Note: Without a few big fish
at the dock the tournament spectacle does not draw near the crowd or
competition, this in turn will hurt the Yacht, Charter, Tourist and
Marina industries just to name a few!
Please send emails to the
following email address: (Just Click on it)
sf1.060303d@noaa.gov
(cut
and paste the statement below if you wish to save time!)
I'm a recreational
fisherman:
I will not stand for the
over regulation of recreational fishing!
I will not stand for
commercial Pelagic Longline and other non-rod & reel fishing
techniques that desecrate our environment!
I will not stand for the
internal baffling of issues due to the bureaucratic nature of your
political agency!
I will not stand for NMFS
appointed officials, they should be voted into office!
I will be adding more about
the future regulation of recreational fishing and the
deregulation/weak policies of the 215 commercial fishing vessels
that by NMFS statistics are killing
98%
of the Billfish (not to mention other by-catch)! Oh yea, guess
who owns those vessels,
POLITICIANS!
Read this from back in 1999...very informative!
More important information from Ocean City!
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Kill Chart
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Recreational
Fishing Alliance 
Coastal
Conservation Organization
