Jimmy, Good article, but I found it interesting that they stated that hooking fish weakens them, and then use as an example a live goliath grouper (alias jewfish) with 20 hooks still in its mouth. Wrong example to prove a point, I think. I would use that as an example that a fish can be hooked 20 times and still live. Am I missing the point?
I accept that 'sport' fishing does put pressure on fisheries, but as stated, well-managed high-pressure fisheries are doing well. Valuable fisheries and fishermen with money are a symbiotic relationship. I believe bottom-dragging commercial foreign trawlers with sophisticated instruments to avoid capture work the off-limits inshore bays during the nights. This is going on in Mexican waters on a regular basis, so why not here? The dead discarded by-catch of these fleets is millions of tons of fish and various bottom creatures, especially the chain-dragging shrimp trawlers. Sport-fishers don't leave a wake of death and destruction like a commercial shrimper does, unless JimmyD drags his feet in the water behind the boat. I'd like to get Ginger's professional take on this article, since it's in her field and in her neck of the woods. Ginger? DonO BTW, one must cut and paste both lines to insert in the url line, or it doesn't work. Mine only highlights the 1st line, and it takes both. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:41 PM Subject: [VFB] Fishing > I can not believe how inconsiderate those fisherman are......... > > http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cfish27xaug27,0,2697 > 677.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines > > Somebody need to set these folks straight..... > Jimi > >
