Comment from Brandon Blackmon

Document ID: NOAA-NMFS-2008-0110-0062
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
Received Date: July 08 2009, at 10:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 5 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 30 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 4 2009, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 809ec306
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; Snapper-Grouper Fishery off the Southern Atlantic States; Amendment 15B; Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico

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I am utterly amazed at the proposal of requiring a "selected" observer on private fishing vessels. This sounds like something that would be coming from comunist Soviet Union. There's no other word to desccibe it that absurd. I've been following this for close to two years now and have read how the data is being collected in theses so called "studies". The practices I'm aware of are flawed at the very least. I've been fishing North Florida waters for 20 years and have never seen the Snapper population as healthy or even close as it has been the last few years. Please use some common sense here and stand up to whatever environmentalist are behind this unfounded proposed draconian rstrictions. Brandon Blackmon

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