Blue Angels perform
Blue Angels practicing over Stock Island Lobster Company on friday.
Bureaucrats and the Bureaucracy
Commenting on my writing, someone recently asked in a facetious way, “Why don’t you tell us how you really feel about the bureaucracy?” Well, here it is. I have no tolerance for the slavish words of praise we hear some fishermen lay on fishery managers,
Blue Angels perform
The U.S. Navy’s Precision Flying Team put on a show directly over the fish house. Thursday and friday were practice days for the real shows on saturday and sunday.
Bill to subsidize fishermen
Tags: Regulation
According to the Key West Citizen, a bill has been introduced in congress to give commercial fishermen 80 million dollars a year for 5 years to use their boats for other activities. House bill 4914 would pay fishermen to work with scientists on research trips
IFQ’s – Final Word
Tags: IFQ
Fishery managers, we suppose, don’t realize the destructive effect of Individual Fishing Quotas on our communities, nor understand the reality of utilizing them in the real world. Stability in your fisheries!Predictability! Catch them when you want! Sell when the price is high! Fish only when
IFQ’s – The Reality
Tags: IFQ
In the Florida Keys, we now have Individual Fishing Quotas in the Red Snapper and Grouper industry, and the federal fishing bureaucracy is proceeding forward in virtually all of the remaining fisheries. Supposedly under some mandate from the Magnuson-Stevens Act, our governing elite declares that
No Ban On Recreational Fishing
An article published by ESPN suggested the Obama administration was aiming to place a nationwide ban on recreational fishing. According to an administration spokesperson, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Interagency Policy Task Force, will be implementing ‘bottom up’ policy, and ‘has not recommended
Lemon Sharks Protected
Tags: Sharks
The FWC has prohibited all taking of Lemon Sharks in Florida waters. We don’t know what the science says, but the FWC says they took this action because they have a high potential to be over-harvested. One can only wonder who the potential over-harvesters may
Individual Fishing Quota’s – Background
Tags: IFQ
Individual Fishing Quotas (IFQ), also known as Catch Shares, have now become the bureaucracy’s single most effective tool for the elimination of small boat fishermen. Fishery managers set an annual poundage quota for a given species, and then divvy it up to individual fishermen, based
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Help for Fishermen?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Commentary, Fishery Issues, Industry