I will post some of my public comments to the fishery bureaucracies on this page.
Please copy any or all of these public comments and send them to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council as well as your members of Congress. Most politicians will not accept emails from citizens that do not live in their district. This is the SAFMC email address. safmc@safmc.net Here are two links to the contact information for members of Congress. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfmhttp://www.house.gov/representatives/ Thank you!
Marine Protected Area Public Comments
My name is Chris McCaffity. I am a commercial fisherman who has been offering common sense solutions that would mitigate many of the severe negative impacts of rushed regulations that are based on “fatally flawed” data. I feel as if my solutions are being dismissed and ignored by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) leadership. Please take a few minutes to read why I have ZERO confidence in the council’s ability to properly manage anything including Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
The gross mismanagement of unnecessarily low quotas that are based on “fatally flawed” data played a key role in the death of a fisherman. The mismanagement has caused hundreds of tons of perfectly edible fish to be discarded to slowly die and go to waste. The worst part about this is that the council leadership appears to be maliciously mismanaging our fisheries in an attempt to advance other agendas like catch shares and area closures. The solution is very simple yet the leadership refuses to enact it. Quotas should be MANAGED with split seasons and Trip Poundage Limits (TPLs). The TPLs should be adjusted after approximately 75% of a seasonal quota has been caught to a level that fills the quota without a long closure. We could target fish with high TPLs while still keeping the ones we accidentally catch with lower TPLs. This would follow the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) mandates to limit waste, make efficient use of our resources, and promote fishermen’s safety at sea. Roy Crabtree told me that the council did not have to follow those mandates. I asked how we were supposed to safely survive the rebuilding process if they would not even consider our safety at sea. Crabtree told me that was not the council’s concern! Alan Nelson lost his life trying to support his 19 month old baby shortly after the council decided that derby fisheries were the best way to “manage” the reduced quotas at the December 2009 SAFMC meeting.
For these reasons and many more, I have ZERO confidence in the SAFMC. The multiple layers of federal fishery bureaucracy should be investigated by Congress and any regulations that do not follow all MSA mandates or NEPA requirements should be abolished immediately. The SAFMC should not be allowed to pass any more laws until they properly manage the quotas and do credible stock assessments. Permit holders should have final approval of any management measures with a 2/3 majority vote.
This is the only way I would support Marine Protected Areas.
1. MPAs should be limited to small key areas. 2. MPAs should be marked with data collection towers. 3. MPAs should be offset with equal areas of Artificial Reefs.
The negative impacts of MPAs on recreational and commercial fishermen as well as seafood consumers could be mitigated by creating equal areas of new habitat as are closed with MPAs. Some areas with sandy barren bottom could be transformed into Artificial Reefs that would produce more seafood for fishermen and consumers. Artificial Reefs are the perfect union of aquaculture and commercially or recreationally harvested wild fish. We could show other nations how they can produce more revenue and feed more people while protecting their resources. We need to look at ways to enhance our resources rather than just restricting our access to them. The data collection towers could be powered with solar panels, windmills, and tidal energy. Underwater cameras could provide constant footage of the reef. Video cameras on the platforms could be used to keep fishermen out of the MPAs rather than forcing us to buy expensive and intrusive Vessel Monitoring Systems.
The SAFMC has squandered a great chance to fix the problems they created with decades of mismanagement. The council’s gross incompetence is rewarded with more money and power. Our obedience is punished with new laws that force us to waste our resources and compromise our safety. We are treated like the most hated number in the council’s management equations. The fish and fishermen they manage seem to be looked at as pawns in the game they are playing with our lives as they test their scientific theories. We are not numbers, variables, or Guinea Pigs! We are American citizens. We are human beings that deserve to be treated like the bureaucrats that rule us would like to be treated if the roles were reversed. The council’s actions have created tons of Regulatory Discards, financially ruined families, destroyed businesses, denied consumers seafood, and even contributed to the death of at least one of their fellow Americans. We can avoid most of these negative impacts by simply using the slightest bit of common sense along with sound science and remember the Golden Rule.
Based on the ongoing corruption, incompetence, and abuse of power by the SAFMC leadership, I respectfully ask everyone reading this to OPPOSE MPAs until our quotas are properly managed and credible stock assessments are done. I also ask everyone to SUPPORT the three MPA stipulations that would mitigate most of their negative impacts. Thank you. freefish7@hotmail.com
Public Comments Regarding the PROPER Management of America’s Fisheries
My name is Chris McCaffity. I am a commercial snapper/grouper fisherman who has been offering simple solutions that would mitigate many of the SEVERE negative impacts associated with LAWS written by unelected bureaucrats that violate the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Fishermen have been forced to obey these laws through the barrel of a gun and threats of fines, seizure of our property, or even imprisonment. We pay the price for our obedience with our blood, treasure, and liberty. The gross incompetence of the bureaucrats who claim to have mismanaged almost every stock they control is rewarded with more money and power to rule us with an iron fist and the full weight of the federal government behind them.
Roy Crabtree is the SE Regional Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service and sits on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. He told me that if I did not like the way our fisheries are being managed, then I needed to take it up with Congress. I pray these Public Comments will find their way to every member of Congress. I pray these comments will soften the hearts of the fishery “managers” who seem to feel absolved of any personal responsibility for their actions that financially DEVESTATE our families, play key roles in the DEATHS of our fellow fishermen, and cause TONS of perfectly edible fish to be TORTURED to death and WASTED in the name of CONSERVATION! I PRAY the PUBLIC will STAND with me against the environmental “charities” and their bureaucrat puppets that threaten our God-given freedom.
I will be BOYCOTTING the December SAFMC meeting that will be held three hours away from the closest saltwater. This appears to be an attempt to disenfranchise a small minority group of American citizens. Many of us cannot afford to travel and stay at an expensive hotel since our businesses have been destroyed. I believe this is a passive aggressive ploy to restrict our freedom of speech. Will Congress allow unelected bureaucrats to violate our First Amendment Right to peacefully defend our God-given Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
I previously mentioned how the laws written by unelected bureaucrats are enforced through the barrel of a gun and threats of heavy fines, seizure of property, or even imprisonment. The enforcement officers VIOLATE our Fourth Amendment Constitutional Rights as they ILLEGALLY search and seize our private property. A boat is considered a residence if it has a head and bunk. The CURTILAGE of that residence includes the ENTIRE vessel. Any WARRANTLESS search or seizure of such vessels associated with anything other than safety violations (as ruled by the Supreme Court) is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
EVERY member of Congress and EVERY unelected bureaucrat SWEARS an oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Will Congress hold the domestic enemies of our Constitution accountable for their actions? Will our Senators and Representatives HONOR their oath?
The multiple layers of fishery bureaucracy are using tactics laid out in UN Agenda 21 which Congress recognized as a threat to our Nation’s sovereignty and to our Constitutional Rights. Congress refused to ratify that attack on our individual Liberty. Environmental “charities” have lobbied Congress and pressured bureaucrats to load environmental laws with Agenda 21 mandates like the Precautionary Principal. Every President that held office since Congress refused to ratify Agenda 21 has issued executive orders forcing these UN mandates on us. Will Congress do anything about these Presidential and bureaucratic actions that usurp their authority? Will the public realize what is happening before we lose 51% of our freedom?
I ask Congress to take these actions to help America’s fishermen and the seafood we harvest.
1. Give federal fishery permit holders the power to have final approval of any new regulation effecting their fishery with a 2/3 majority vote.
2. Give federal fishery permit holders the power to access ALL documents available to fishery “managers” and allow the permit holders to offer alternate management measures that follow ALL of the guidelines in the Magnuson-Stevens Act and use existing Total Allowable Catch numbers.
3. Set up an independent peer review panel to ensure that all past, present, and future management measures offered by fishery “managers” and permit holders abide by ALL of the Magnuson-Stevens Act mandates. Allow permit holders to offer alternatives to the past management measures that violate the MSA in any way or simply abolish them.
4. Give federal fishery permit holders the power to FIRE any fishery “manager” involved in their fishery with a 2/3 majority vote of no confidence and offer a replacement to be approved by the peer review panel and a 2/3 majority vote of the permit holders.
5. Create a federal data collection permit for every recreational and commercial fishery. Require all fishermen to purchase a twenty dollar permit for each federal fishery they participate in. Allocate those funds and 1% of the NMFS BILLION dollar annual budget to set up an independent data collection center. Require every permit holder to electronically report the fish they catch for each trip. The data collected should be used in independent stock assessments to support or refute the “Best Available Science” used by fishery “managers”. The data should also be used to PROPERLY manage the quotas with possession limits adjusted quarterly or after approximately 75% of a seasonal quota has been caught to levels that will fill the quotas without any long closures. The permit holders would have final approval of any adjustments with a 2/3 majority vote.
6. Set up a secure way for federal permit holders to cast these 2/3 majority votes electronically. This secure site could also be used to debate how we want to manage our fisheries. Any permit holder could offer their own management measures. We could have an open and honest debate and come to a compromise that follows ALL MSA mandates and can pass a 2/3 majority vote of the permit holders in the effected fishery.
7. Begin a full Congressional investigation into all levels of federal fishery bureaucracy. Their own stock assessments show they have grossly mismanaged almost every fishery they have controlled for decades. The evidence of corruption and abuse of power is mounting against the multiple layers of fishery bureaucracy every day. Congress set up the fishery bureaucracies to manage our fisheries for the benefit of all Americans and to insure that those public resources are healthy and sustainable for future generations. They have failed miserably. They have destroyed countless jobs. They have caused the deaths of many innocent fishermen. They have forced fishermen to discard millions of dead and dying fish to go to waste in the name of conservation. They have violated our Constitutional Rights as they force us to commit these atrocities. They have used UN mandates to strike down the freedom our Creator endowed us with and many brave American soldiers have defended with their lives. We could achieve the goals we should all have of healthy fisheries that can be responsibly harvested forever with very little waste without all of the Regulatory Discards, financial ruin, bloodshed, and loss of Liberty. We simply need to work together using SOUND SCIENCE, the slightest bit of COMMON SENSE, and remember the GOLDEN RULE.
The actions listed above would give fishermen a little more say in how we do our jobs and how our fisheries are managed while following ALL of the requirements Congress included in the reauthorized MSA. Roy Crabtree has publicly stated that the management measures they pass do not have to follow all of the mandates in the MSA. Will Congress allow these unelected bureaucrats to get away with blatantly refusing to follow the MSA mandates to limit waste, make efficient use of our resources, and promote fishermen’s safety at sea?
Please consider what Edmond Burke said. “Enforcing stupid laws is the essence or tyranny.” I argue that forcing fishermen to torture fish to death and waste them in the name of conservation is a perfect example of a STUPID law that promotes tyranny rather than liberty. Is the loss of liberty any less tragic if it is taken with “good” intentions by fellow Americans, rather than by foreign enemies? Will Congress allow unelected bureaucrats to continue enforcing STUPID laws on American citizens through the barrel of a gun and violations of our Constitutional Rights?
I have laid out plans in previous public statements about how we could limit waste and enhance our resources with things like Artificial Reefs that are the perfect union of aquaculture and commercially or recreationally harvested wild seafood. An aggressive Artificial Reef program would benefit the resource and fishermen while providing millions of people with access to delicious and nutritious wild caught seafood. I have also mentioned how the Saltonstall-Kennedy tax on imported seafood should be used to enhance our fisheries and promote the domestic supply of seafood. How are the funds being used now?
I would be happy to provide anyone reading this with copies of my previous public comments. I would also be extremely happy to testify before Congress during the investigation that I pray will begin before it is too late for the few remaining commercial fishermen who have suffered mightily as our fisheries have been grossly mismanaged.
Thank you for taking the time to read these comments. Please feel free to ask me any questions or request any of my previous public comments. freefish7@hotmail.com
First in a Series of Public Comments Regarding Federal Fisheries Regulations My name is Chris McCaffity. I am a commercial fisherman who has been offering solutions that would mitigate the severe negative impacts associated with fishery laws that do not follow ALL of the mandates in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. I was told at the December, 2009 South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) meeting that the only mandate they had to follow was the one end overfishing within a hard deadline. I asked how we were supposed to safely survive the rebuilding process if they would not even follow the mandate to promote fishermen’s safety at sea. The council’s cold response was this. “THAT IS NOT OUR CONCERN!” The National Marine Fisheries Service SE Regional Administrator and SAFMC member Roy Crabtree told me that “if I did not like what they were doing to us, then I needed to take it up with Congress”.
This series of public comments will be sent to the SAFMC and every member of Congress I can find an email address for. I will also send them to the media, private citizens, and many of the environmental “charities” that threaten to sue if their bureaucrat puppets do not obey them. My comments will point out some problems and offer simple solutions. I ask everyone reading them to keep an open heart and mind. I truly care about the resource and have decades of on-the-water experience to share. We should all have a common goal of healthy fisheries that can be responsibly harvested with very little waste and in a way that preserves our fishing heritage.
Regulatory Discards have reached obscene levels. Fishermen are forced to discard thousands of perfectly edible fish that do not meet some arbitrary length. Many of those fish slowly die from stress, infection, and decompression damage. Our quotas are drastically reduced as fishery “managers” plan ahead for TONS of fish to be tortured to death and wasted. Fishermen are forced to commit these atrocities through the barrel of a gun and threats of heavy fines, seizure of our property, or even imprisonment. Marine Patrol Officers violate our Fourth Amendment Constitutional Rights as they illegally search and seize our property without a warrant. The Supreme Court ruled that boats can only be searched for safety violations without a warrant.
The simple solution to stop this pre-meditated government mandated fish abuse and the violation of our Constitutional Rights is to REMOVE ALL SIZE LIMITS. The fishery “managers” claim our stocks are truncated. DUH! We have been forced to target nothing but the breeding stock of many species for decades. This leaves a glut of small fish that grow slowly as they all compete for the same food source. Runts of each spawn pollute the gene pool and reduce the overall health of the stock as well as the average size of the fish. We should be required to keep what we catch regardless of size until our possession limits are met and count EVERY fish landed against the considerably higher quotas. This common sense approach would follow the mandates in the Magnuson-Stevens Act to limit waste, make efficient use of our resources, and promote fishermen’s safety at sea while ending overfishing quicker. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments. freefish7@hotmail.com It is time to stop this tragic waste.
Public Comments Regarding Amendment 18A
My name is Chris McCaffity. I am a commercial fisherman who has been offering common sense solutions to mitigate the severe negative impacts associated with the laws passed by the multiple layers of fishery bureaucracy that fail to follow many of the requirements in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. I would like to start by saying that I have ZERO confidence in the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s ability to properly manage ANYTHING. The minions of environmental “charities” like Pew and EDF and their puppets in the council have proven themselves to either be grossly incompetent or they are maliciously mismanaging our fisheries in an attempt to advance other agendas. The truth is that the mismanagement is likely due to a healthy dose of both. God help us if all government bureaucracies are as bad as the SAFMC, NMFS, and NOAA. The resources, country, and freedom He gave us are all threatened by the unelected bureaucrats that rule us with an iron fist and the full weight of the federal government behind them. They are slowly killing our SWEET LADY LIBERTY by the death of a 1,000 cuts! Bureaucrats do things like give themselves the power to use “unspecified drastic action” against American citizens to stop us from catching a fish. Can the well armed Marine Patrol Officers SHOOT people to keep them from catching an “illegal” fish? Is this what Congress intended when they set up the fishery bureaucracies and passed the Magnuson-Stevens Act?
According to their own stock assessments, the multiple layers of fishery bureaucracy have GROSSLY MISMANAGED almost every stock under their jurisdiction for decades. Fishermen have been forced through the barrel of a gun and threats of fines, seizures, or even imprisonment too follow all of the convoluted laws that just keep piling up. Our obedience is rewarded with lower quotas and MORE regulations based on admittedly FLAWED data. The bureaucracy’s gross incompetence is rewarded with MORE MONEY and POWER!
I publicly call for Congress to pass a bill that will allow permit holders in a federal fishery to have final approval of all Amendments with a 2/3 majority vote. We should have access to all documents available to the councils and come up with alternative management plans using the existing Total Allowable Catches while following ALL of the mandates in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Congress should set up a peer review panel to insure all management plans submitted by the regional councils and the permit holders comply with the MSA. All existing regulations should be reviewed by the panel and allow the permit holders to offer alternatives for the regulations that fail to comply with the MSA.
The comments below will address each management measure in Amendment 18A.
1. I OPPOSE any endorsement program to limit participation in the Black Sea Bass pot fishery. Our federal snapper/grouper permits allow us to participate in that fishery. The council is trying to change the rules after they grossly mismanaged the quotas for the past two years. This council used flawed data to set annual quotas unnecessarily low and REFUSED to properly manage the low quotas with split seasons and Trip Poundage Limits (TPL). The TPL should be set at 1,000 pounds until 90% of the seasonal quota has been filled and then shut down the bass pot fishery. The TPL should then be set at 100 pounds for the hook and line fishery until the seasonal quota is filled.
2. The number of pots should be limited to how many a boat can bring home after a trip.
3. The council should establish commercial trip limits or TPLs in conjunction with split seasons as laid out previously.
4. I cannot believe this council is really going to increase the size limit AGAIN! ALL size limits are nothing more than government mandated pre-meditated fish abuse. Many of the discarded fish slowly die from stress, infection, and decompression damage. The circle hooks the SAFMC in all their collective infinite wisdom and compassion decided to force fishermen to use, often break the fish’s jaw when they are not removed properly. Those poor fish slowly starve to death unless infection ends their suffering first. The size limit should be removed and all new bass pots should have 2” mesh.
5. I OPPOSE spawning season closures. It should not matter when we harvest the fish as long as we do not exceed the quota.
6. The quota should be adjusted with updated stock assessments and increased as the waste associated with size limits ends when they are finally removed.
7. Recreational fishermen should ask for a bottom fish permit that requires electronic reporting on all trips and uses any fees for independent data collection.
These suggestions would limit most of the waste associated with Regulatory Discards. The stock of Black Sea Bass and every other fish that lives in the same areas could be helped greatly with an aggressive Artificial Reef program. Artificial Reefs are the perfect union of aquaculture and commercially harvested wild fish. We should be enhancing the resource rather than restricting access to it. Please contact me if anyone has any questions. freefish7@hotmail.com
Public Comments Regarding Amendment 24
My name is Chris McCaffity. I am a commercial fisherman who has been offering common sense solutions that would mitigate the severe negative impacts associated with regulations passed by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council that fail to comply with many of the mandates in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. I have ZERO confidence in the SAFMC’s ability to properly manage ANYTHING! The minions of environmental “charities” like Pew and EDF along with their puppets in the leadership of the multiple layers of fishery bureaucracy are either grossly incompetent or they are maliciously mismanaging our fisheries in an attempt to advance other agendas.
Roy Crabtree has stated that the South Atlantic snapper/grouper fishery will be managed much like the Gulf. He said they will start with derby fisheries to “manage” the reduced quotas and then “try” Trip Poundage Limits before using catch shares to “save” our fisheries. The proper use of TPLs would achieve all of the honorable goals of catch shares without the “unintended” consequences like fleet reductions that destroy an average of 1/3 of the permit holder’s businesses in every fishery catch share schemes “help”. I do not believe for one second that the SAFMC has given up on catch shares even though they voted not to continue pursuing them. I believe the leadership is simply giving their feeble attempts at TPLs a chance to fail. The Vermilion Snapper fishery is a perfect example of how their versions of TPLs are set up to fail. They did nothing to extend the season or limit Regulatory Discards compared to a derby fishery.
Amendment 24 follows the pattern Roy Crabtree planned for. They are planning to “manage” the Red Grouper quota as a derby fishery and warn us that this WILL cause the fishery to be shut down early! Next year they are planning to use a Regulatory Amendment to implement their version of TPLs. If past TPLs are any indication of how they will be set up for Red Grouper, the TPLs will be set up in the most incompetent way possible. After their lame versions of TPLs fail, they will say they have tried everything else and catch shares are the only solution left. This seems to be more malicious than incompetent.
I again publicly call on Congress to pass a bill that will allow permit holders in a federal fishery to have final approval of all Amendments with a 2/3 majority vote. We should have access to all documents available to the councils and come up with alternative management plans using the existing Total Allowable Catches while following ALL of the mandates in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Congress should set up a peer review panel to insure all management plans submitted by the regional councils and the permit holders comply with the MSA. All existing regulations should be reviewed by the panel and allow the permit holders to offer alternatives for the regulations that fail to comply with the MSA.
This is how the Red Grouper fishery should be managed.
1. The way the council split the quota between recreational fishermen and consumers should be reversed. The council in their infinite wisdom decided to allocate about 400,000 pounds of the quota to recreational fishermen even though their average annual catch is only about 150,000 pounds. The commercial quota will be set at around 300,000 pounds even though our annual catches average about 400,000 pounds. REALLY! This is the height of bureaucratic incompetence. Anyone with half a brain could look at those numbers and know they should be reversed. That would still give recreational fishermen a quota that is twice their average annual catch. That still seems a little unfair to the consumers of Red Grouper, but at least it makes much more sense.
2. The size limit for Red Grouper should be removed and the quota increased as the waste associated with size limits ends. Removing only the larger breeding stock of fish leads to truncated stocks and reduces the overall health of a fishery and the average size of the fish in it.
3. The commercial Red Grouper quota should be PROPERLY managed with possession limits instead of creating another derby fishery that threatens our safety at sea, creates Regulatory Discards, and denies consumer’s access to Red Grouper for long periods. Here is how the TPLs should be set up.
A. Set a 100 pound by-catch allowance during the four month spawning season closure. This would keep fishermen from targeting Red Grouper during the spawning season, but we could make efficient use of those we accidentally catch. Those fish would create revenue and feed people instead of TONS of them slowly dying and going to waste. The circle hooks fishermen are now forced to use break a fish’s jaw if they are not removed properly. Those poor fish slowly starve to death if infection or decompression damage does not kill them first.
B. Set a 1,000 pound Trip Poundage Limit until approximately 75% of the quota has been caught. The TPL should then be adjusted to level that would fill the quota without a long closure. Here are examples of how the TPLs should be adjusted.
The TPL should remain at 1,000 pounds if there is only one month left in the season.
The TPL should be decreased to 100 pounds if there are six months left in the season.
The TPL should be decreased to 200 pounds if there are five months left in the season.
The TPL should be decreased to 300 pounds if there are four months left in the season.
The TPL should be decreased to 400 pounds if there are three months left in the season.
The TPL should be decreased to 500 pounds if there are two months left in the season.
I understand Roy Crabtree’s point that the SAFMC cannot adjust the TPL when EXACTLY 75% of the quota has been filled. They can however, adjust it after somewhere between 70 and 80% of the quota has been filled. The reduced TPLs would make it easier to extrapolate when the quota will be filled. This will extend the season through most of the year and limit waste.
The stock of Red Grouper and everything living in the same areas could be helped greatly with an aggressive Artificial Reef program. They are the perfect union of aquaculture and commercially harvested wild fish. We should be allocating some of the National Marine Fisheries Service BILLION dollar annual budget to enhancing the resource rather than just trying to restrict the public’s access to OUR PUBLIC RESOURCES. The money appropriated to advancing the catch share scheme that very few fishermen support could be used to create new habitat. With all of their decades of collective college education, the fishery “managers” should know the three key things needed to increase a stock of fish.
1. Increase the amount of food available.
2. Increase the amount of shelter available.
3. Predatory stress invokes a reproductive response.
Artificial Reefs create the base of the food chain and could greatly increase the total biomass our South Atlantic could support. They would not only increase the amount of seafood available for harvest, they would help corals, turtles, and everything else that lives on and around structure.
Why do the fishery bureaucrats refuse to help the fish, fishermen, and consumers? Why are ALL of the laws they pass aimed at restricting our freedom, destroying our jobs, wasting our resources, and denying consumer’s access to safe American seafood? Could the Saltonstall/Kennedy tax on imported seafood have something to do with the bureaucracy wanting to import more seafood rather than increasing the amount of American seafood available to consumers? That tax revenue should be used to enhance our fisheries and promote the domestic supply of seafood. What is it being used for now?
The plans I laid out would follow all of the mandates in the MSA and help the Red Grouper stock rebuild from decades of gross mismanagement with very little if any negative impacts to the fish, fishermen, or consumers.
Please forward these comments to anyone you think might be interested in properly managing our public resources. Please contact me if you have any questions. freefish7@hotmail.com
