Congressional Hearing on Red Snapper Closure

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   Name: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2009

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   Comments: Time for Congress to straighten out fisheries management.

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   Name: Richard Trussell,capt on Nov 20, 2009

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   Name: Marsha E Hass on Nov 20, 2009

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   Comments: This petition is very important to me due to the underlying issues. Congress must act to protect recreational fishing in this country.

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   Name: Debbie Barlow on Nov 20, 2009

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   Name: Gary Gorodetsky on Nov 20, 2009

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   Name: Michael Setzer on Nov 20, 2009

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   Comments: I have been out to the Florida Middle Grounds since the regular season closed this year and the American Red Snapper were so think that we had to move several times to keep from catching them. Such harsh limits and closures are not needed. The fishery is in as good of shape as I have seen ever.

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   Name: Mark Fellows on Nov 20, 2009

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   Name: Charlie Schammel on Nov 20, 2009

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   Comments: This company has already incurred losses from the inaccurate information on the health of the red snapper population.

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   Name: Karl Pappas on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Benjamin Rugman on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: David Pate on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Robert DeVincentis on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: The SEDAR 15 report is fatally flawed as noted by numerous scientists. I have done ver 1,000 dives offshore Jacksonville for the last 13 years and have seen the improvement of snapper over those years. There is an over abundance of Red Snapper off of the coast.

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    Name: Jeff Philo on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Mark Purcell on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Angelo Manni on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: This is an important part of my life and many others. I live in the Northeast and would hate for this to spread. I frequent North Carolina on fishing vacations which is a main source of income for most of the Outer Banks. Fishing and boating are what I work hard for. It is not only a sport it is a lifestyle. This has to be stopped. I dont think they realize the future effects. Thanks Fish On !!

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: This is crazy! I fish four days a week and if you ask me, there are more Red Snapper than ever! I fish from Ft. Pierce to Jacksonville. I am a recreational fisherman and I have no problem getting my boat limit with six people in the boat.

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    Name: Sandra Harris on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: William Shackelford on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Laddie Birge on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Robert DeVincentis on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: Please demand better research for a fishery that is truly thriving. There are more red snapper now off of Jacksonville than I have seen in the last 13 years of scuba diving.

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    Name: Martin Douglas on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: I am a sport fisherman residing in Florida and help contribute to the $35 Billion that the industry provides to the economy every year. As a stakeholder and participant in the fisheries resources, my assessment, made from direct personal observation conflicts with the presumptive models based in incomplete and questionable data being presented by the national marine fisheries service. It is import to all of us that this moratorium on sport fishing for this abundant species be delayed until sound data are collected, assessed and summarized clearly and in a defensible manner. Please show your support for Congressmen Mica, Brown and other supporting members of Congress in their request to hear this important issue before irreversible economic damage occurs from taking action that may not be necessary at all

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Matt Badolato on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Robert Harbison on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Bryan Troy on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: This closure is not based on any reliable science and that is fact. I have been fishing these waters for the last 15 years and the snapper fishing is as good as i have ever seen it. You will kill the boating industry, the fishing industry and related industry. There will be huge trickle down. If I cant take my family out fishing and spend hundreds of dollars on fuel, bait, ice, insurance and maintenance and not even come home with dinner then I will simply quit fishing. this will hurt all related industries. If you want to protect grouper and snapper stocks then maybe you should look at the numbers that are killed by commercial divers during the thermoclines when it is literally shooting fish in a barrel. Get rid of the shrimp boats that kill juveniles by the thousands but leave the hardworking recreational fisherman alone. The two fish I am allowed to keep are not wiping out the stocks.

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    Name: Betty Addison on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: hey, the fish are for everyone, leave them alone.

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    Name: Christian Mathisen on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Douglas Benc on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: I want the poeple who I have supported to support me and my family and take a legitmate look at the data and stop making decisions because of political pressure.

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    Name: Richard Taylor on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Richard Littlejohn on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: James Anderson on Nov 20, 2009

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    Comments: stop the ban

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    Name: Steve Hobbs on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: Please stop the closures.

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    Name: Ron Adamson on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Huston Goodrich on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: Please do not turn my hobby in to a crime.

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    Name: Vincent Scanio III on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Michael Padgett on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: Please support H.R. 3307. There are so many red snapper in the pensacola area waters that it is actually DIFFICULT to avoid catching them. The idea of restricting the fishing season even further is LUDICRIS! I plan to vote in the next election based on how my elected officials respond to this matter, as do a large number of my friends.

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    Name: Bill Grant on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: Please do not close the fishery unless valid factual evidence suggests it is needed.

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    Name: Emily Woodberry on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: Please do not let SAFMC to close bottom fishing off the east coast of the US.

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    Name: William Dombross on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: William L. Holt, Jr. on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: I do indeed support a congressional hearing to stop the implementation of a fishing ban on red snapper and grouper in the Atlantic Ocean. Sincerely, William L. Holt Jr.

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    Name: William L. Holt, Jr. on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: I do indeed support a congressional hearing to stop the implementation of a fishing ban on red snapper and grouper in the Atlantic Ocean. Sincerely, William L. Holt Jr.

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    Name: Michelle Cooke on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: Please stop these closures. It is crazy to close Snapper when they are plentiful. The Snapper are so thick in some areas that it makes it hard to get to other fish. It is wrong to put a no catch law on them, not to mention how it will hurt the marine industry & commercial fisherman.

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    Name: Troy Cooke on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Ron Rincones on Nov 21, 2009

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    Comments: No where in the annals of our Nation has the angling community face such adversity perpetrated by those whose goal is to end fishing!

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    Name: Alan Martin on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Cliff Hagan on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Capt. Christopher Wiwi on Nov 21, 2009

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    Name: Frederick Killgore on Nov 22, 2009

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    Comments: The red snapper closure is wrong. The same goes for the grouper closure, and for the "no fishing zones."

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