Shady lady going down!!!!!!!

[msbhammer]

They should have cut the rigging off.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by MSBHAMMER

They should have cut the rigging off.

The rigging is what attracts the AJ's around here, as well as the smaller SNAPPER.

[phatdaddy]

hammer, as a fellow diver, you should realize the gold mine of lures,weights & anchors to found at the end of the season.

what did the bottom trawlers do to you parishht? their just tryn to make a living like everyone else. besides the fact that the industry is being taken over by foriegners. i no theres some bad ones to but thats in every thing.

[parishht]

They didn't do anything to me,
but I hate to see waste.

If there were a way to avoid by catch,
there would be more fish and sealife than we would know what to do with.

I have seen pictures of my uncle catch flounder from
back water bridges in Deleware, back in the 50's and 60's
Now I can barely catch any in the De. bay,
Where'd they go?

well, i've put some thought into my post after i made it and there is a big difference between the fisheries here in south ms than other places. we primarily fish for shrimp and yes there is alot of waste. in other places you have these huge boats (and we have em here but not in great numbers and even though my family shrimps we HATE em) we call em pogy boats. they use spotter planes to find shcools of fish and demolish everything in their path. i can see were they could seriously hurt fisheries. ive seen times where they would show up in an area and within two days the whole sound would be full of dead fish. i mean sharks from 1' to 8' long and porpoises and all kind of stuff including red fish, just anything they cant keep they throw it back. even though we pull nets we are required to use TEDS and any kind of game fish can either outrun our nets and get out of the way or if they do get in the net they just go out of the TEDS. where as the pogy boats use purse type nets where nothing gets away. anyways, you can go on and on about this subject and i see both sides of it i guess i am just kind of partial to the commercial shrimper.

[parishht]

Thanks drgn, that is what I'm talkin about. ;)

[phatdaddy]

florida has the net ban & that helped a few species a lot. but i think coastal developement of marsh land(the nursery for 90% of all species) and storm water run off has hurt than any other single factor.

[parishht]

Agreed Phat, Chesapeake bay used to be the largest oyster
producing area in the world.

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/american_oyster.htm

But because of farm and domestic run off,
it has been cut to almost nothing on a world scale
and the fish are getting pfiesteria.
Item 4 notes that it is coming from known water qulity problems in estuaries.


http://www.unc.edu/depts/cmse/science/pfiesteria.html

In all, man (evreyone) is self destructive.