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My
first thoght was "Om my, another lot of people bosses with Sierra
Clubber mentalities
flexing their legislative muscles. But no. At least not
primarily. It's TAX INCOME
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Fisherman Ernie Foster said the legislators were
missing the point. Fish are a public resource that anyone should be
allowed to catch, not just those who are going to produce the most
taxable dollars for the state.
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Rep. Darrell McCormick, R-Yadkin ... has estimated the
new designation would increase economic activity in the state by
billions of dollars. He and the CCA say the three species of fish are
worth much more to the state recreationally than they are commercially.
That’s because of tourism, as McCormick told Carolina Journal last
summer
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“The dock value of one red drum is about $1.50 a pound,” he said. “Its
value to our state, as a recreational fish, is $300 a pound.”
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Sen. Don East, R-Surry, took issue with McCormick’s economics. ... “Do
you place a value on all those jobs that come along with the commercial
fishing industry?” East asked. “The fish houses that have 25 or 30
people processing shrimp or other fish? Do you put a value on the fact
that those jobs are feeding the family?” [Full]
It
all reminds me of Oliver Cromwell and his rump parliament. I can't
really say why. Just something my inner-self feels. *spit*
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About time they got skinned. As an avid Florida fisherman I can tell you the last ten years is nothing but one body blow after the other against guys with outboard motors taking a fish or two. All the while commercial boats and spearfishermen (who are vastly more successful than fishermen) go completely unscathed. For the last twenty years our license fees have gone to pay for hundreds of reefs, that have been declared successful. But the fish on them are somehow endangered. I won't bring up the jewfish epidemic. Now much like climatology, we have absolute evidence that the scientist cooked the numbers, and the reefs are teeming with endangered fish you dare not catch. Look at it this way, maybe it will stop the foreign boats from taking our fish, yeah sure right. In the meantime, the amount of ocean you can take your son to catch a fish is dissapearing fast.-Anymouse
ReplyDeleteWhen J hooks are outlawed, only outlaws will have J hooks.
Same basic thing in Alaskan waters: commercial fishermen waste more fish in by catch (fish caught indecently to their legal target market fish) than all the charter boats and citizen fishermen. Yet it is the charter boats and citizens that are having their limits reduced. I moved to AK 30 years too late.
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Your concerns evidently were not a factor in the counsel's calculus.
ReplyDeleteAssaulting that little girl with that pecker is child abuse...
ReplyDeleteThe gulf is being overfished. And it aint me with my trout rod either. The commercial fishing industry is running amok, and with the support of the dirty pols. We get mo regs and they get mo turned eyes. Its not the noble blue collar fisherman who is behind this its the processing centers and theys lobbyists that is got the government mans ear. Im a huge outdoorsman and conservationist as well as an unabashed capitalist, but its time to create some balance in the gulf.
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