All bottom fishing prohibited.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Why do I get the feeling that the "fisheries management" people have no real clue as to what is going on? In the northeast it's the Fluke population that is the spotted owl, although from all indications the biomass of this species is greater than it's been for the past 10 years... Now they've set their sights on Black Sea Bass and Weakfish. In all cases I personally think that if they would just BAN commercial fishing of these species there would be no problems. Instead it's the recreational fisherman that takes it in the neck while the commercial fisheries continue to get larger and larger quota's. Damn them all!!

When the agencies that allocate who can catch what are part of the department of commerce, it will ALWAYS go the commercial way since they are a commercial agency for commercial harvesting. Florida gets it dry yet again. If it aint the oil on one side, it's the fisheries management on the other side.