The Right to Fish and Hunt

The Right to Fish and Hunt

AND LIVE FREE!

Killing More Flounder by 40% Does What for a Fishery?

Killing More Flounder by 40% Does What for a Fishery?

NMFS Building of Knowledge
A Think Tank Up For Sale

From the guys that brought you Catch shares, IFQ's, TAC and all that, National Marine Fisheries Services has presented new flounder rules allowing for larger discard rates. National Marine Fisheries Services has presented new flounder rules, which now make NO SENSE; where anglers can catch more as the limit has been increased but cannot keep or possess those fish caught? Kill more fish to catch more fish is the price one pays with a madman at the wheel (Helm), or should we say its the privateer Jane Lubchenco's answer to saving the fisheries with 'the Best Science Available'; kill more to save more! Maybe as a retired Captain, I am out of the game but anyway you catch it, it makes no since to me but maybe its not about cents but dollars. The limits for catching Southern New England winter flounder ( blackbacks) have been raised by 40 percent for the next fishing year, begins May 1, 2011. National Marine Fisheries Services personal stated that under the existing regulations, anglers cannot legally possess or land the fish. Wait a minute, you can catch more but you cannot keep any of them; what treachery is this! 
 
“With the limit up to 1.6 million pounds from 1.1 million, the increase means that a further 500,000 pounds of winter flounder, a vulnerable stock, can be discarded. Steve Cadrin, a professor at the School for Marine Science and Technology at Univ. Mass Dartmouth, and chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council's science and statistical committee, said that for the National Marine Fisheries Service to put this forward as an example of flexibility is really a slap in the face. He told that this rule allow more discard of winter flounder. He said that fishermen don't benefit a bit from that increase because it's still a no-possession fishery. It's 40 percent more fish being discarded overboard.


Tom Nies, a senior analyst with the New England Fishery Management Council, said that the council put forward the zero catch limit because we don't want people targeting it. Giving fishermen the flounder, commonly known as blackbacks, would actually increase the discard rate, according to James Odlin, a council member and a commercial fisherman.


Although catch limits are intended to rebuild depleted stocks, very few discarded fish survive being caught in a trawl. This species provides a graphic example of the challenges facing regulators as they try to develop management plans for individual stocks in a mufti-species fishery”...WORLDFISHINGTODAY.COM

Would it not just make more since to increase the TAC to include ones discard, which becomes part of the TAC in allowing a full price on the Total Catch. Nothing is discarded but your target is whatever plus an allowable discard catch, which too will be purchased and consumed somewhere. Na, that would make more cents to dollars and help the fisheries with less discard. Why do that when you have “Real Science” on board with Lubchenco's fleet and I am but an Editor of a Fisherman’s Bible; The Online Fisherman dot com!

The Great Federal Water Grab

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The Great Federal Water Grab

It is part of the BIODIVERSITY Plan

To take over AMERICA by the United Nations

through Agenda 21. Call your Representatives and say NO WAY!

I Live Free, I VOTE!

CALL SOMEONE WHO CARES! They work for you and you sign their paychecks with your tax dollars.

If they want to hold their seats, they will listen, if not; VOTE THEM OUT!

FLORIDA
Member Name	DC Phone
Senator Bill Nelson (D- FL)	202-224-5274
Rubio, Marco - (R – FL)	202-224-3041
Representative Jeff Miller (R – 01)	202-225-4136
Stephen Southerland, II (R-02)	202-225-5235
Representative Corrine Brown (D – 03)	202-225-0123
Representative Ander Crenshaw (R – 04 )	202-225-2501
Richard Nugent (R-05)	202-225-1002
Representative Cliff Stearns (R – 06)	202-225-5744
Representative John L. Mica (R – 07)	202-225-4035
Daniel Webster (R-8)	202-225-2176
Representative Gus Michael Bilirakis (R – 09)	202-225-5755
Representative C. W. (Bill) Young (R – 10)	202-225-5961
Representative Kathy Anne Castor (D – 11)	202-225-3376
Dennis Ross (R-12)	202-225-1252
Representative Vernon Gale Buchanan (R – 13)	202-225-5015
Representative Connie Mack (R – 14)	202-225-2536
Representative Bill Posey (R – 15)	202-225-3671
Representative Tom Rooney (R – 16)	202-225-5792
Frederica Wilson (D-17)	202-225-4506
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – 18 )	202-225-3931
Ted Deutch (D-19)	202-225-3001
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D - 20)	202-225-7931
Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R - 21)	202-225-4211
Allen West (R-22)	202-225-3026
Representative Alcee L. Hastings (D – 23 )	202-225-1313
Sandy Adams (R-24)	202-225-2706
David Rivera (R-25)	202-225-2778

Who's Side is the CCA on?

Who's Side is the CCA on?

Ever wonder just who is on our side in our fight for the right to fish? It ain't the World Bank or Michael Arbuckle, Senior Specialist in fish & is associated with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization which is part of UNICEF; so what does a bank do with fish?

Michael Arbuckle

Senior Fisheries Specialist

World Bank, Washington D.C.

(202) 473-7672

marbuckle@worldbank.org

Well a workshop is set to come up later this March to which our CCA is to run.

Who's Side is the CCA on?

Mid-Atlantic Catch Shares Workshop Panelists

March 16-18, 2010

Atlantic States Fisheries Director

Coastal Conservation Association

(910) 338-0012

ccaasmfc@cs.com

 

Dick Brame is the Atlantic States Director for the Coastal Conservation Association’s Atlantic

Marine Fisheries Committee and has worked with CCA for more than twenty years. Prior to

working in his current position he served for ten years as the Executive Director of CCA’s North

Carolina state chapter. He is a member of NOAA’s Marine Recreational Information Program

(MRIP) Operations Team and a liaison to the Registry Team, serves on the Advisory Panel to the

Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP), and is a member of the ACCSP

Recreational Technical Committee. He also serves on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s King and Spanish Mackerel Advisory Panel.

Can You Hear Me NOW?

Financing Fisheries Change or The Fleecing of America's Fishing Industry

This book may be of African waters but it helps in a model to pave the way towards our decline in the fisheries as we know it and hand it over to those only interested in a "New World Order" to where fishing is a major player because our fish can feed the world; but the local mom & pop shops are not part of the plan. 

What bothers me is the players in the game and too the players to which are suppose to be helping out the ones fighting this New Order in saving their businesses. One comes to mind that really bothers me, Dick Brameof CCA. 

Dick Brame is the Atlantic States Director for the Coastal Conservation Association’s Atlantic Marine Fisheries Committee and has worked with CCA for more than twenty years. Prior to working in his current position he served for ten years as the Executive Director of CCA’s North Carolina state chapter. He is a member of NOAA’s Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) Operations Team and a liaison to the Registry Team, serves on the Advisory Panel to the Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP), and is a member of the ACCSP

Recreational Technical Committee. He also serves on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s King and Spanish Mackerel Advisory Panel. He is assigned to be a panelist for the up coming

Mid-Atlantic Catch Shares Workshop Panelist March 16-18, 2010, as the Atlantic States Fisheries Director, representing the Coastal Conservation Association. Kind of sharp on top of that fence is it not Dick? Now we know where the CCA stands in all of this muck & mire! Captain Len brought out a great article called 

 The David & Lucile Packard Foundation’s:

Financing Fisheries Change

A Enviro Primer On Owning Our Fish, Leasing Them Back, Maintaining Control, & Making a Fortune to Boot

By Capt. Len Belcaro

 

In a brazenly open move to attract investors to EDF’s catch share movement plans which will privatize our public marine resource, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, an anti-fishing environmental group, in conjunction with Jason Winship’s Sea Change Investment Fund, have released through Manta Consulting a 120 page document entitled “Financing Fisheries Change.” This document clearly explains the procedure to make huge investment dividends from our marine resources after the Environmental Defense Fund, through their shill EDF Jane at NOAA, forces catch shares on both the American recreational and commercial fishermen. Simply put, Financing Fisheries Change is a primer on how environmental groups can purchase, or provide funding to purchase Individual Fishing Quotas (IFQs) then lease them back to the American fisherman.  READ MORE

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Oil, it does not just "GO AWAY" only the mainstream media went away!

Agenda 21 For Dummies

LOST; Agenda 21 Earth Summit: Ratified by our own President Obama? This is now real and being implemented as we speak through Catch Shares, sector separation, and domination of the oceans around our country to feed the world through your working efforts, as peasants, to Lords or Czars of NEO's like EDF, PEW, TIDES, George Soros and controlled by one world government. Good bye Red, White and Blue; Hello New World Order!

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