CaptainStanman
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 Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:26 pm Post subject: Here is a Petition that needs to be signed |
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As you can see from the email from Terry Winn, president of the Central Florida Offshore Anglers, they will be contacting 350,000 recreational fishing license holders in Florida asking them to sign the petition to Fix Magnuson Now. There is no way all 350,000 will have the time to sign the petition, but 350,000 will be contacted and shown that fisheries management in Florida in federal waters is based on flawed science and this incomplete and inadequate data is destroying jobs and killing our cultures.
I ask that you do three things:
1. Send Terry Winn an e-mail thanking him for what his organization is doing. (www.centralfloridaoffshoreanglers.com )
2. Ask your friends, suppliers and anyone else interested in fishing and justice to contact their elected representatives, local, state and federal and ask them to listen what their constituents are saying, not to the propaganda from Pew Trusts.
3. Emphasize that both political parties say there are dedicated to creating and keeping jobs. Now is the time to walk the walk if you talk the talk. Ask them to help us keep over 1,000 jobs that have low carbon footprints. Ask them to let us continue harvesting sustainable fish and enjoying the culture of recreational fishing, which means over 5 billion dollars to the economy of Florida alone. The commercial economic value is over 1 billion. Added together any person should be able to see the importance of a fishing industry that must not be destroyed on a highly controversial 7 to 6 vote of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
We cannot compete with Pew Trust in dollars and lobbyists and we cannot load up the Council meetings with Pew representatives because we have to make a living. But we can use technology available to us to prove to our elected officials that Pew Trust is not the answer. Pew Trust is the problem. When Pew decides they want to talk to us we will consider it.
Bob Jones (Congressman)
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Fishing Clubs and Organizations Team up to Fight Fisheries Closures
The South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council (SAFMC) has now made major closures of snapper and grouper fisheries and has a proposal for a total closure of snapper for an undetermined amount of time, as well as a proposal to stop all bottom fishing because of the potential that a snapper may be killed as by catch. The areas affected run from the Carolina to Key West and similar restrictions are being enacted in the Gulf.
In a cooperative effort the following clubs and organizations have joined forces to fight current and potential fishery closures dictated by the SAFMC as well as demand the science used to enact those closures be examined and fixed.
CFOA- Central Florida Offshore Anglers- Orlando, FL www.centralfloridaoffshoreanglers.com
FSFA- Florida Sport Fishing Association- Merritt Island, FL www.fsfaclub.org
HSFC- Halifax Sport Fishing Club, Daytona Beach, FL www.hsfc.com
SISA- Sebastian Inlet Sport Fishing Assoc, Sebastian Fl http://sites.google.com/site/fishsisa/Home
RFA- Recreational Fishing Alliance- http://joinrfa.org
FRA- Fishing Rights Alliance- www.thefraorg
Deep Blue Sea Fishing Forum- Http://www.deep-blue-sea.org
Our members have fished and dived along the Florida East coast areas for many years and maintain a first hand knowledge of the health of the fishery. To be honest- where it was in decline 20 years ago, the current restrictions for minimum size and catch have worked to point where we believe the red snapper stock is healthier than it has been at any time in the last 25 years.
We contest the data being presented that shows the fishery to be in decline as being significantly flawed. And to be honest, as sportsmen, if we felt that the fishery was in trouble as we did many years ago, we would advocate new restrictions. These draconian measures are already having a catastrophic economical snowball effect in the State of Florida, from tourism dollars, to tackle and bait shops to charter Captains along with a degradation in the historical way of life for all involved.
But the biggest impact will be to our way of life as citizens of this country and what we support as our right to be able to go out and fish, have a good time and eat what we catch in a reasonable recreational sustainable fishery.
The petition calls for Congress to pass legislation to restrict the Commerce Department from enacting any further closures in the South Atlantic Region, and rescind the current interim closure of Red Snapper until fisheries managers improve the MRFSS system (data collection) and it passes a peer review.
WHAT can you do to help:
Go to this website- read the information and sign the electronic petition..
http://petition.deep-blue-sea.org
FORWARD this mail to everyone that you know and ask them to do the same. Open the attachment- print it and share with others.
We appreciate you taking the time to read this, making an informed decision to sign the petition and passing it along to others that feel the same way.
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www.captainstanman.us 1st 2005 SKA 23 Class, 2nd 2008, 14th 2009, 15th 2003, SKA Sportsman 2004. 2002 U. S. Anglers 23 Champ. 36 day 1 46 day 2 (82 lbs).SKA Atlantic 23 Class record 2 day Agg.-82.38-2005, 42.47-39.91. Onslow Bay KMT Dir., $212,484-11 yrs |
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