Gulf States Have Lost Confidence in Feds to Manage Red Snapper

diggin4grouper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcLUbeoja5w

cpr

thanks for the link.
Sad that they can't get it right.

Mackeral Snatcher

Ok, got it.
They can't count reef fish because the way they count fish is by trawling and you can't do that around reefs because it's hard on the nets.
Did I understand that correctly?

TrippleTailIV

Ok, I get it. There are too many fish to count and big a place to count them. So you have to sample or survey. Done all the time with other things (polls, ducks, etc).

What I can't get is why, with all the artificial structure in the Gulf, they didn't do what Alabama is doing did years and years ago. I understand if you sample just reefs, the data is biased. But come on people, you don't need cameras to check out reefs or rigs. It's called hook and line....

I can see how if the Feds give up red snapper management, one of the caveats is going to be states must perform a population assessment in there waters. Of course, what state has that kind of money? It would come from the Feds, which means they really don't let go of management.

bay20

that was awesome, as many meeting as I have been to on the Atlantic side I never knew that that they trawled these fish with nets, what a joke. I thought in the gulf that the biggest depletion of the red snapper population was cause by the shrimpers and their nets, seems counter productive to sample them that way.

CaptBobBryant

Time to tell congress what we think

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/296GDXG

saltybrad

CaptBobBryant wrote: »

Time to tell congress what we think

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/296GDXG

done