>>Guys,

>>Please tone it down. You're not doing your cause or yourselves any good.

>>Swapping personal insults does our cause NO good. Makes us look like a bunch of unreasonable fanatics. Besides, the name calling is off topic. Leave that talk on some other forum.

>>Try to find some common ground. I'm sure both sides have merit. Actually, I know they do.

>>All this fighting and fragmentation plays right into the opposition's hands. There are obviously many factions with a stake here. If we don't find some measure of compromise and common ground among ourselves, and speak with a united voice, we are sunk.

>>Lets clean it up and keep our focus on solutions, please.

>>I've been gone a while. Will have to read back to catch up.

>>Thanks for your time.

>>jsc

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>>"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"

>>John Crickmer





The problem is that Mike wanted to impose his will and views on us. From the start it was said that we don't "support" commercial collecting but never said we were against it. Personally I feel that in this day in age commercial collecting does more harm than good. Both from a conservational and a legistlative standpoint. If Mike wants to make money catching animals for profit he should try getting work as a greenhorn on a crabbing boat in the Bering Sea. Thats profitable work.
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Steve W.

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