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by Alkie
October 7th, 2005, 4:47 pm
Forum: Offshore Fishing Reports
Topic: Longliners: and they wonder why our fisheries are dying
Replies: 5
Views: 1457

SImply put. Every time we give an inch they will take a mile. The only real trend I see every year is shortened seasons, lower bag limits, more restrictive regulations, and a growing multiple billion dollar a year commercial seafood market. I hate it, but that seems to be the way things are going
by Alkie
October 6th, 2005, 11:59 am
Forum: Offshore Fishing Reports
Topic: Longliners: and they wonder why our fisheries are dying
Replies: 5
Views: 1457

Longliners: and they wonder why our fisheries are dying

As you can see here this is a 100% mortality rate. Several of the shorts, although released are still dead. If they turn these loose in our Gulf, we can realistically expect 8+ months per year of closed grouper seasons, bag limits similar to redfish, and a commercial raping of our fishery. This ...
by Alkie
September 21st, 2005, 12:45 pm
Forum: Offshore Fishing Reports
Topic: Econfina this weekend
Replies: 4
Views: 1646

Re: Econfina this weekend

Has anyone been or heard any decent offshore reports in the Econfina or St Marks area? I was planning on coming down this weekend and I need to know if it is going to be a big boat offshore weekend or a bay boat trout/red weekend? Looks like the reds are doing pretty good.

We got 3 limits last ...