Unfortunately True..

[ssiredfish]

Originally Posted by RidgeRunner

Lots more traction on this topic than anticipated. Laws have importance in society. It all began with warning labels. LOL.

Prosecution: "Mr. Siredfish, Where were you at 10:43 am on Nov. 3, 2011? Is this or is this not a copy of your itterations on WellcraftV20.com? And do I have the best data available?"

I'm with you, just not sure about skating with that defense.
The FWC guy said that people will take no matter what the rules state.
No **** sherlock! There are fish species worth protecting but get real. There is no shortage of goliath grouper, black sea bass, redfish, trout, or amber jack. Don't have any first hand data on grouper or red snapper but the folks at Florida Sportsman caught plenty of large red snapper in a size group the Feds claimed there simply weren't any.

What techniques do they use to count all the fish in the ocean anyway?

Man if they found this thread to use against me that guy deserves a raise

Whats funny is that I think if you were to ask enough fisherman they would tend to say that the Grouper need more protection and not the aforementioned species. They could have a majority on their side as opposed but they want to hammer the stuff we know there is an abundance of. Anyway, better bite my tongue before they do find this......

I think they use hook and line, traps and diver counts to assess numbers but I heard the problem is that they grid an area out and fish it completely as opposed to going where the fish are and fishing multiple areas like the fisherman do. While they may be thorough, they isolate themselves geographically which is going to lead to a misrepresentation.......