Comment from Brian Fletcher

I do not agree with a IFQ program for grouper in the gulf of mexico. If grouper is being over fished LOWER THE QUOTA! Dont put a bunch of people out of buisness while at the same time give a natural resource to a limited number of people to own, sell and lease for the rest of their lives! These fish should belong to everyone.If a IFQ program takes effect the majority of the quota will go to large scale company's that are the ones that are responsable for the fishery being over fished in the first place "mostly long lines" Make IFQ's non transferable , if you dont catch your shares they go to someone else who is willing to actually fish for a living and not just sit behind a computer and lease their quotas for thousands of dollars year after year. The fishermen who are for this are wanting to turn a natural resource into a comodity that they will own forever. They are after easy money! There are other ways to adress this problem without putting alot of people out of buisness. Let everyone who has a reef fish permit have a say so not just the big guy!