5 Comments ATTN: All West Coast Salties – MUST READ

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   JM

   on Nov 02, 2011
   at 9:55 am

   Salty , it’s great that they are taking action now. We’ve seen a lot of bad things here in the East because of mismanagement of Atlantic Menhaden. The Chesapeake Bay has suffered , as well as once great fisheries all along the Eastern coast.

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   oneCoolTuna

   on Nov 03, 2011
   at 10:51 am

   Thanks Salty for the info, Just make sure they are not part of this MLPA and trying to shut fisherman down in a backdoor move to take away our bait fish all together. Getting burned by the MLPA and saying they wanted the public input and then doing what they want and tossing out the input. I am all for the management of the oceans resources and bait management sounds good as long as they don’t restrict the catching of it for fishing. Taking it for non-fishing is fine with me. Wish I could make the run up there and see what this group is all about.

   Jeff

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     socalsalty

     on Nov 03, 2011
     at 11:18 am

     I’ll dig more, but their stated goal is to keep baitfish off commercial use that aren’t on now. So choves dines and market squid are status quo

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   Dale Perkins

   on Sep 04, 2012
   at 12:00 pm

   This would be laughable if it were not so obscene. The PEW charitable Trust is trying to shift the blame for the economic devastation they have caused to “overfishing” rather than the “over regulation” they have consistently perpetuated. They have ulterior motives one of which is to privatize the oceans for rich and powerful special interests. Because it is an election year and they have caused so much economic damage this is a public relations ploy to shift blame. Go to this link at activist cash .com and you can see for yourself what the Pew Charitable Trust is all about. It is a nice charitable sounding name though; they must have good public relations people.
   http://activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/o/225-tides-foundation–tides-center

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     socalsalty

     on Sep 04, 2012
     at 12:26 pm

     Hmmm…I read the link you posted and I’m not even sure how it correlates to this specific issue sbout forage fish. The Pew Trust has several different initiatives going on and this is just one of them. The Pacific Fisheries Mgmt Council agreed with the position that Pew promoted and I advocated. The PFMC is hardly a radical environmental group and I’m pleased with the position they took as it relates to the health of fisheries and the positive effect it will have for sportsfishing.

     Thanks though for stopping by and taking time to comment.

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