Red snapper

[SharkDave]

Sorry didn’t see my previous post on thread. Same shit 2x.

[Southernduck]

A lot of cattle graze public land. If you want to keep more fish quit your job, get an expensive highly regulated and limited snapper grouper permit, you’ll need 2 for 1. VMS, fill out reports coming and going, take mandatory random observers, go to work in sometimes aweful conditions. Get boarded and harassed by green jeans or CG nearly constantly to make sure you’re in compliance. And then cringe when you see the sky high fuel prices take most of your profit.

Grazing cattle on public land is far from free. There are permits and maintenance costs with it too.

I wish commercial fishing would make a resurgence. It’s a tough way to make a living but I imagine it is a spiritually rewarding job like raising cattle. It seems like the big players in the commercial sector control the SAFMC and want to keep everyone else out. That needs to change. One thing is for sure we need data from both commercial and rec guys to make sound decisions but we are talking about the government so throw common sense out the window.

[Saltydog235]

Grazing cattle on public land is far from free. There are permits and maintenance costs with it too.

I wish commercial fishing would make a resurgence. It’s a tough way to make a living but I imagine it is a spiritually rewarding job like raising cattle. It seems like the big players in the commercial sector control the SAFMC and want to keep everyone else out. That needs to change. One thing is for sure we need data from both commercial and rec guys to make sound decisions but we are talking about the government so throw common sense out the window.

No truer words have been spoken in the thread. None of those big players give a damn about a spiritually rewarding job nor the little guys that are trying to eek out a living day to day, they'd just as soon put them all under water. SAFMC needs to be sent to the gut bucket, states should be in control of the waters that are along their coastlines insofar as resource management is concerned. Then maybe a resurgence of some sort could take place but I doubt it, the old guys that new how are going and there's not much in the younger set taking it up.

[Duck Tape]

I am told, there are only 50 commercial guys that reef fish in federal waters.

[Southernduck]

I am told, there are only 50 commercial guys that reef fish in federal waters.

In the state? It wouldn’t surprise me if you told me the whole southern Atlantic

[Saltydog235]

I am told, there are only 50 commercial guys that reef fish in federal waters.

Well damn, I saw 4 or 5 of them on Saturday.

[Duck Tape]

50 in the state. How many recreational fishermen will target them?

A I says 60,000 different rec fishermen would target them on a 60 day season.

There are 220,000 salt water licenses.

Might not be difficult to convince legislators who to support.