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Old 11-12-2017, 01:36 PM   #16
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Re: Goliath grouper workshops scheduled in Florida from July 31, 2017 to October 18,

LOL.. I misread your statement Tony. I was honestly confused.

Do I think the stock is recovered?

I don't know the answer to that, but killing 100 fish sure ain't gonna do much to the populations in the SE Atlantic and the Gulf.

As we continue to destroy the estuaries, sea grasses, mangroves and degrade the quality of runoff, I'm not so confident that we will ever reach the historic abundance of the species.

As i have said before, a continued failure to open up some sort of take, will probably result in MORE GG being killed. Lotsa people are perfectly willing to "thin the heard" if the government won't "act responsibly" - in their minds of course.


Not so different than when the divers saw the GG populations fall year after year and they voluntarily stopped killing them .. even though it was perfectly legal to do so.

I couldn't find a legal gag grouper in 20 dives around here, but I sure as hell could find 20 GG in one day if I wanted.
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