What do you think is wrong....

[sea-grits]

Thought sea-grits was all the do do any ever needed.

Tweeeet! Tweeeet! A-rougga! A-rougga! Dinga! Dinga! Ding!
I done been called, do do, on this here forum, that's so dedicated to sweetness and light!
Where's da POLICE, when ya needs, 'em!

[DixieReb]

Maybe you should watch what you say about the Geaww-ja folks.

[sea-grits]

Maybe you should watch what you say about the Geaww-ja folks.

At 'air feller ain't from Geaww-ja, no way!
An', all I said was they's stirrin' up do do in our fishin' waters, down here, in Flawda! They ain't got no Big Bend in Geaww-ja!

[Cranfield]

We have areas here, that have suffered overall fish stocks reductions and they have one thing in common.
Everyone can remember the past, when they caught and killed massive numbers of fish.

Perhaps these catches have impacted on current numbers.
Most fish have effective (better) breeding cycles, in some species these can be over 10 years.
Even first year breeding fish have effective cycles.
It is very easy to start a downward spiral, unless things are managed by size and catch limits.

I suspect the real answer, is probably a combination of all the ideas offered on this thread.
But, no resource can be continually harvested, without sensible management.

[sea-grits]

I suspect the real answer, is probably a combination of all the ideas offered on this thread.
But, no resource can be continually harvested, without sensible management.

Some more than others.
NW Florida has a very, "thin" marsh/nursery zone" and the growing rate of inshore fish stocks is way too little for the harvesting rate.
And, the bio-soup draining out into this zone is minimal, too. The food chain for trout and redfish suffer in this regard.
Marine law enforcement is minimal, to non-existent in the area of night-time enforcement of local small rig netters (not cast netters). If a true ban on all netting existed, and FMP worked at night (other than the few stings they now do) this area's thin inshore bio-sphere could produce much better, related to the harvest rate. FMP, mostly, does a, "show of force" on weekends and holidays, checking out, mostly, law-abiding sport fishing folks. They seem to spend way too much license monies on building vast navies of boat rigs that load up their boat yards which seem to, mostly, be crammed to the gills, every time I drive by one (fairly recently, they've been installing what looks like 8-10' high solid wood fences on the outside of the old chain-link, see-through fences) that cause me to think they're trying to hide these huge, under-utilized navies).
I'd hope I am wrong about FMP. Anybody got some, inside, on them?

[Sir reel]

I believe some of FMP resources have been redirected towards Home Land Security Issues. That would obviously cut down on what they can/could be doing.