What are Catch Shares?

"Catch Shares are a tool in the hands of fishery managers. Or are they?"

 Catch Shares


What are Catch Shares? In case you never heard the term, we want to spend a few minutes telling you a story. It is a political story, and as such might be something you think has no place in the world of sport fishing. But if you do, you're wrong. Because politics - large scale, global, high-dollar politics - are every bit a part of the world of fishing as they are the world of oil, the world of health care, or the world of the environmental protection agency, and in turn our federal government. If you fish it is time to start learning about a clear and imminent danger to our way of life. It is called Catch Shares.

The regulators and a tofu-diet ruling the meat eaters of the world
Catch shares are simple to understand. But before we define how they work, realize that the environmental movement is now more than 20 years old. The radical among the movement feel that mankind, in it's rush for gold and oil and i Pads, is destroying the earth. It has gotten to the point where the United Nations recognizes mother earth as a being, with every right granted to the humans that live on her skin. Look; I am as kind to the environment as anybody I know. In fact, it is the anglers, hunters, and outdoors people I know that are the true conservationists, not the pale-skinned tofu-slurping vegans whose idea of the great outdoors is a channel on cable tv called the Animal Planet. But the earth is our home. We need to keep it clean but we are the dominant species. We do not belong controlled and wrapped in little dream cities.

We belong outside, and benefit from tribal politics. We protect our own. It is human nature, not dirt and rocks with human legal rights. There is no fairness except that provided by the law. Law it not controlling our fisheries; regulations written by people who think we are less than intelligent for wanting to kill those poor little fish are and have been controlling our sport. After all, you can watch them on tv! Why in science's name (their form of God) would a civilized person rip those innocent creatures from their homes and EAT THEM?????
But make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen. It is the tofu-eaters among our regulatory bodies that are making the rules now changing our lives. When I was a kid, tarpon tournaments resulted in thousands and thousands of dead tarpon hung from the porches and roofs of public buildings and colleges. Despite that devastating and environmentally unconscious introduction to the beauty for sport fishing for the Silver King, the sport - and the fish - are alive and well.

Today we cannot catch gag and red grouper, and American Red Snapper are so abundant that they are driving grouper off their natural reefs. But out of our reach.  Little wonder the gag and red grouper counts are down. Jewfish, now politically-corrected to the label "Goliath Grouper", eat ten percent of their weight a week. A four-hundred pound grouper that eats forty-pounds of gags and reds for lunch. But they are protected, and now so, too, will be their food sources. And didn't a Jewish kid kill that Palestinian? Isn't that the story, and isn't Bill Ayres and his wife and code pink sponsoring flotillas to protect Goliath offspring?
Regulations and the environmental left are and have been completely out of control. They do not fish, but regulate our fisheries. They believe in their form off science, and silence other voices. And they are destroying our angling way of life. You want proof? As the mayor of Madeira Beach, Florida, Travis Palladeno watches his business and life fade away. Regulated away. His city, far from becoming the utopia Vibrant Coastal Community envisioned by former EDF board member Jane Lunchenco (now Obama's Director of NOAA), it is on dry dock, and dying a slow death. They were the sports grouper fishing capital of the world. Now they are dry docked. The families cast asked for the protection of abundant fisheries.


Catch shares

So onto our definition of catch shares. Catch shares are a set of regulations where by the government and their globally-warmed scientists count the fish. Since they do not go on the water, that use computer models. Right now the computers tell them that the recreational angling community is killing all the grouper, so using what is called precautionary science, they shut us down. The grouper are there, but the computer models do not see them. Like they failed to see the clouds covering our planet in the computer models that warned of imminent global heating to the point of global death of all things living.
Once they count the fish, they, in their infinite wisdom, distribute them. Or we should say redistribute them. Some go to the commercial guys, some to captains and head boats, and some to us. Us regular Jo's with boats bought with money we earned. The taxpayers who support the recreational industry in all it's forms and reach. In Florida, that is $50 billion a year according to reliable statistics.

We come last. First comes the commercial boats (Tyson foods, anyone?). While shutting down half of our national fleet with over-regulation, Walmart has been gobbling up the paperwork - called Individual Fishing Quotas- that will let them populate many  boats all those independent fishing families lost as a result of the overwhelming number of new "environmental" regulations. They have given millions from their "foundation" to the tofu tr-sexual regulating us off the water. And it is going to be at Walmart you will have to go and buy your government permission-ticket before going out to catch those (now safe) grouper. If you buy a ticket and you don't catch any that day? Or the weather stops you before you reach your fishy spot? Too bad. Next time you go, you buy a new permission ticket at Walmart. And if you think there won't be flounder and redfish tickets at the same place in the same aisle soon after the grouper tickets, you are out of your mind. Let a camel into the tent, and their nose makes room for their humps.

Hold your nose and follow the money

One more thing on catch shares. There is only one protein food source you cannot yet buy on the Chicago Mercantile, where the values are determined for the future prices of the world's commodities. You can bet on the future price of everything from pig bellies to cows to natural gas. But there is one thing you cannot bet on. One thing still a public resource. Fish.
Think about it. The argument that catch shares are "an effective tool in the hand of scientists and other government officials responsible for managing our fisheries" nonsense. What it is is a thinly veiled strategy to move money and power. Catch shares can be made to sound perfectly sensible. Until you smell the stink of corruption. Some $70 million in money is being moved around between tax-exempt organizations, and the threat to our freedom is obvious. If you want something on the Mercantile, you have to first allocate it. Who better than people who think that having goldfish as pets should be illegal? Do not laugh. Check city law in San Francisco, California. Give it some time and you will be paying for those goldfish police.

Catch shares have drawn millions of dollars in support from groups like Walton, Alyson foods, PEW, EDF and George Soros' Tides Foundation (among a dozen other like-minded and globally-sympathetic nongovernmental organizations, why not follow the money? If we follow the money, we might find the truth. Is mankind killing the fish, or are they just another collection of victims? Because causes needs collections of victims.

Next in the series: Crony Capitalism, PEW, and Biodiversity channels  

By Gary Poyssick, aka Gary Fisherman;
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The Eye's of Texas are upon us...

Texas added 537,500 non-agriculture jobs between June 2006 and June 2011, based on the latest seasonally adjusted figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
That’s nearly 10 times larger than the second-biggest increase by any state over the five-year span, with Texas adding 732,800 jobs in the past 10 years; only 19 states to include the District of Columbia, as well, posted any gains at all! The eyes of Perry are upon us, all the live long day, with all eyes on Perry as he may be crossing the Potomac, Captain of the helm, in a rescue to save the nation and with the grace of liberty.

Perry's Texas, avoided the real-estate bust that decimated the economies of Florida and California, alike during our 2008-2010 recession, creating some 251,700 new jobs in the past year, alone. Now there is a man with a plan!

Even into the next world, as Perry, like I, believe NASA should not be allowed to disappear into thin air like a magic trick, as President Obama would have it but it shall be reborn into space, the next generation; galaxies in waiting, with new planets as brides, in an exploration of new life. Obama believes the era of human space exploration has come to its end, only to be piggy-backed by the Russians, where as with his quick decision to end our domination of space, he has created a new frontier in presidential politics, the dawning of his demise!To this, as I stated once before and quoted on CNN,"...the Russians really did win the space race!"

If Governor Perry were to romance his bid for leadership of the greatest show on earth, America, we ought to look at his accomplishments, not his skeletons, as we all have at least one of those in the closet and goals are set on things to which have or will benefit all;employment, that's jobs, a feather in Perry's cap, something our current Commander in Chief cannot boast about, much less anyone else with the inclination to run! Just my ten cents worth...

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Testing the Waters for the US Senate, Fl.

"I understand that mine is but one voice, but perhaps when united in a national chorus of discontent against those who would willingly deny you and I as Americans, access to our natural public resources, foundations to governmental entities and asserted councils can better understand how such radical anti-fishing rhetoric is truly impacting the cultural heritage and traditions of our vital coastal infrastructure and refusing us our basic human rights as established under the public trust doctrine."

The Tea Party, to which I follow closely, is not a political party, nor is it looking to form a third political party any time soon, as stated on their web site but we as The Florida Whigs, will be, upon election, that third party to which will be the conscience of the other two, in forming a bond to the Red, White and Blue. Reforming all political parties and government so that the core principles of our Founding Fathers become, once again, the foundation upon which America stands.
I, Gary A. Anderson, do here by so intend to test the waters and am looking for funding to Endorsements as I am an Exploratory Candidate for the US Senate, Florida as a Florida Whig Party Representative. I am Proud to live in North Port Florida. I am proud to resident in the Great State of Florida and I am proud to be an American. I tell all I meet, in this country, yours and mine; you can do whatever you want, all you have to do is try. I maybe disabled but I am not dead. I may not have the millions or even the thousands but too, I testing the waters, because I can. As an Exploratory Candidate I am trying to raise awareness to our future needs within our great state and enough donations, to get on the ballot and run a campaign.

Those to whom I may be running against may be of wealthy individuals but money does not win elections, votes do; money just makes it easier to get the word out. Unfortunately, the man with the Gold usually wins but with enough support from those who cherish fishing to education and a need not to cut on disability in reformation there of; I do need some funds to get the word out! You too, can help by contacting say, ten of your friends, referring ten of your friends to check out my website, Facebook Pages, Blog Spot and if you too feel as strong as I do about changing our Country back to which it was founded upon, with less Federal Government incursion, change your voter registration to The Florida Whig Party. As per Paul Truesdell; “ Unlike other political parties, which have an organizational structure that promotes internal political conflict and posturing, the Florida Whig Party has created a structure that is extremely focused on allowing Coalition Leaders to build their organizations, as they deem appropriate. Because "people-will-be-people" and will not always get along with each other, the FWP encourages those who split from a Coalition to create their own coalition and continue their political engagement. Often, Florida political parties will have strong personality conflicts at the county level that leaves many good men and women behind and cast off. This will not happen with the Florida Whig Party. We merely ask that you agree with the majority of the platform, remain open minded, mutually tolerant, and civil. The Executive Board does not govern from the top down, but rather views itself as the central organizer for America's return of a great political party; The Whigs.” We need 1. Registered Voters, 2. Delegates 3. Coalition Leader but most of all we need you in taking back our America!

I am up for a fight! Putting the feet to the fire with regards to numbers. Education and Health care are big issues to our state and unless your on the receiving end, how do you know what is best for me or you? As an elected official, you must follow to what the people of Florida want, not to what the Government wants. They are into our fisheries, health care, education, unions and now purposing a catch share system for the recreational fisherman; what we can or cannot believe in and I say enough is enough! I Want No More! We are sliding more and more away from the Free Market in Florida advertising dollars because the FDA wants our children protected from unapproved advertisements, our Federal Government does not want? Since when did the Feds tell the States what to do? The bribes must stop. You do this or we give you no more funding; since when did a barter system set itself up with in our fiscal budgets of our Federal Government? Florida right to fish laws are being completely ignored. How much more are we going to be forced to put up with? The unnecessary gag shut down will result in a loss of three billion dollars, and 5000 jobs. Do you realize this order by the Czars was done as all the new regulations are done by them, without an economical feasibility study. They skipped that phase because it is quicker and probably would have recommended against it but that is what The NOAA /NMFS Councils do; ruin lives through U.N. Protocol! Why is it that your Governor or Senator has not come forward and said; Article I - The Legislative Branch, Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation...Tell them what they can do with it! Has nobody have a pair anymore or are they too involved in other interests?

Another by-product to all of this mess are agencies such as NOAA. NOAA is not just about weather, it too is taking your rights away to take your son or daughter fishing. The industry is on a change, put up for sale and now controlled by NGO's, such as PEW and the EDF, with companies behind the scenes, like the Walton Family and the Tyson’s, licking their chops on just how much money they will make off the privatization of your ocean and beaches. By following rules set by NOAA and its Czars and Councils, our Commercial and recreational fishing fleets are floundering in our waters. Championed by NOAA administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco, catch shares and sector management cut the capacity of the fishing fleet dramatically to trickle down economics, only can show how we will lose millions if not billions in tourist dollars to seafood exports because of old rules set by the Federal Government over OUR OWN State waters. Before the Feds wish to take away my disability benefits and yours because of monies in need, why not look into NOAA and its increase to the $5.554 billion dollars awarded to them for more orbiting satellites to tell us what a tornado looks like. Money that could have gone towards a needy cause or, hm...maybe paying off our debt, what a concept!
Get Out and Stay out; administer your own backyard but stay out of mine and as far as Magnuson-Stevens, it needs a revision to the fullest extent, if not either rewritten or abolished all together. Conservation is as good as you put into it and the ways that NOAA is reading the rules, they need to go back to school!
As of late, I have been reading the The Constitution of the United States. It is a fascinating piece of work and other than a few spellings, it could have been written yesterday. It has some enlightening areas to which I wonder when was the last time Congress read it, not looked at it but actually, word for word read its Amendments of 27, as all the Articles within? As the Constitution of the United States of America and our Bill of Rights, we as The Florida Whig Party, support principles before party, personality, and profits, with deeds not words, constructive contribution from all members, and Classical Whig movements and political party efforts from coast-to-coast and border to border . Welcome to the 21st Century Florida Whig Party with historically based principles.

Thank You, Gary A. Anderson

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”—Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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In Kind Pol. Adv. For Gary A. Anderson, By Gary A. Anderson Exploratory Senate Committee 2012