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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

For those of you that haven't been following this, there is a lot of drama unfolding with NMFS and the Gulf of Mexico states regarding snapper seasons....

good synopsis of where we are at this point.....realizing that that more drama is set to unfold before LA goes ahead with their non-compliant season March 24th....

http://www.caller.com/news/2013/feb/13/texas-could-face-an-11-day-snapper-season/?partner=RSS

now, where's that popcorn emoticon?
becky
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shallowsport · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:15 pm Post subject:

This things is getting ready to blow. Hang on! Evil or Very Mad

pinsfish · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the report. Happy to read it all bur definitely need the popcorn. Or a five course meal to get through it all.
So much blah blah blah.
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ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

The future perhaps - all the gulf states have 10 mile state waters and nice long (year round?) seasons, and in return theres a moratorium on snapper in federal waters? If LA goes in this direction behind texas and Crabtree keeps pushing the issue, what state is next?
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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:34 am Post subject:

awesum · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:42 am Post subject:

J.McDonald Knives · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:17 am Post subject:

FIDO · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:39 am Post subject:

Ok, I'll add on, but only for the popcorn folks.

It sure seems like coercion and financial persecution to me. The feds rule with an iron fist. Their way or the highway. Bush's police state growing and growing. They will eventually force Texas to abide. The fisherman will NOT win this one. The Government has zero interest in what's best for the people or the fish, but what is best for the ones telling them what to do... Special interest groups? Tree hugger types with bad science? Politicians from states like California, New York... Chicago? Maybe they are just trying to make a point that the States must comply with federal policy or be punished. The feds have done this before. They have a history of cutting funding to states that have laws they don't like. Abortion laws are a good example. By reducing the season, they are essentially hitting our wallets because of lost revenue. Pretty soon they will financially harm Texas until we allow homo's to legally marry each other. They may cut off funding until we change our gun laws. Hell, maybe even labor laws eventually, oh wait... they already have that one covered across the board. I don't know who is behind this bull honky-tonk, but the circumstances are so ridiculous and alarming, there has to be some seriously shady stuff going on behind the scenes. Simply absurd.

Interestingly, the vote for this emergency rule failed 9 to 8. What did they do? Break for lunch and vote again. Then success! Passed! 10 to 7.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20130211d
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J.McDonald Knives · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:08 am Post subject:

workinbird · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:34 am Post subject:

I have had more luck catching red snapper in state waters than I have in federal waters and it cost me a lot less $$$! <*/)))><

cdhknives · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 03 Aug 2012 Posts: 297

Long thread on another forum addressing this issue...

http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=472225

Bottom line, we're all screwed. Fisherman are such a small voting block that we have little pull in DC.

Let's go grouper fishing... Twisted Evil

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J.McDonald Knives · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:24 pm Post subject:

rawlbay · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:08 pm Post subject:

All I know is that I am getting pretty tired of dealing with all the bazillion endangered red snapper every time I want to try and catch a grouper...

FIDO · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:26 am Post subject:

gonefishing · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:38 am Post subject:

Aren't these the same federal boneheads currently blowing up snapper habitat, killing tens of thousands of red snapper in the process?