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Snapper fishing ban has angry anglers seeing red

ORLANDO — Despite angry calls from fishermen about bad science and ruined livelihoods, fishery managers went ahead Wednesday with a long-term ban on red snapper fishing.

By a 9-4 vote, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council made permanent an interim ban that was set to expire Dec. 5.
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Sounds familiar doesnt it? Its a shame a few people in power get to control thousands of people through these laws. I personally think we are going to see a devastating depression some day and we wont even be able to fish for our food imagine that! They will take everything away pretty soon.
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Its a shame a few people in power get to control thousands of people through these laws. I personally think we are going to see a devastating depression some day and we wont even be able to fish for our food imagine that! They will take everything away pretty soon.

If it gets to that point they won't be able to stop us. There are way more of us than there are of them.

Is it sport fishing charter captains/party boat operators, or commercial fishermen?
Anyway, the oil will probably make those that survive unfit to eat/sell commercially.
When I was in the Navy early 1970's I knew a guy from Florida, a Quartermaster, as in Ship's navigator, and all he ever wanted to do when he got out was to be a sport fishing charter captain. That's what he did as a crew member before he went in.
jsc
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