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posted on Mar 10, 2012
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Lastly, as far as your assertion that we recreational fishermen (your readership) want to slaughter every last fish out there, I assert that we are the true conservationists - the first to do the "right" thing for the resource, and have accepted lower bag limits and ever- ...
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posted on Mar 9, 2012
Tom:
I don't think NOAA plans to force catch shares on the recreational fishery, but they obviously would like to do it with charter boats, who I've never considered as purely recreational anyway. But I think it should be left up to the charter fleets in question to decide ...
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posted on Mar 8, 2012
Tom,
I do find it bizarre that you and others constantly cut and paste articles from the Gloucester Times as if the positions advocated within them have anything to do with recreational fishing. Mr. Gaines and his paper are advocates for large-scale commercial fishing fleets and the ...
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posted on Mar 8, 2012
Are those the only two options? "Not to worry," and "extinction?" Come on, there are plenty of people worried about the status of billfish, but you use the word extinction too much.
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posted on Mar 7, 2012
Jim,
Your interpretation of the data at times tends to be more pessimistic than the interpretation of the same data by others.
JB
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posted on Mar 7, 2012
I stand corrected then.
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posted on Mar 5, 2012
They will also go back and re-analyze pre-2004 numbers at some point in the future as well.
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posted on Mar 5, 2012
Jim,
I disagree, this bill will stop importation from the Pacific, with the notable exception of Hawaii, and will do a LOT to help. Closing down California will be a great thing.
JB
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posted on Mar 5, 2012
Tom,
Relax, no one is "attacking" your question. I know Jim Chambers and disagree with a great many of his positions, but no one believes 100 percent in Murawski's statement proclaiming all overfishing to be over, just like almost no one believes overfishing to be as ...
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posted on Mar 4, 2012
[QUOTE=What is your relationship the The Environmental Defense Fund?.[/QUOTE]
Tom,
Seriously? Does everyone who acknowledges the existence of overfishing have to be a crony of EDF?
JB
