Comment from Sam Rider, Recreational fisherman

Have lived in Fort Pierce Fl for 40 years,and have been fishing and scuba diving for 30 years. From my experience the fishing and diving have recovered greatly since the band on commercial netting to bad you won't do anything about the commercial dredging and draging. I personally have seen the damage done by beach renorishment projects. Now where there was once a shallow water reef there is nothing but sand, covered buy all of the beach renorishment projects,god forbid we would not want the wealthys homes to fall in the water. Also when these dredge pull the sand from a natural sea bottom they disturb the natural vegitation and I have seen it smother a reef. I think the recreational fisherman have more regulations then are needed now . In fact I think some need to be lifted such as the goliath grouper there are more here now then I have ever seen in my life and they eat everything.We have enough laws and more should not be made so that a educated man can have a job setting behind a desk doing nothing . Everyday more and more of my freedoms are taken away buy people who do nothing but sit behind a desk. Leave all of our recreational fishing alone.