The only people that want to go to IFQ are the ones that have the most to gain.
Fishing is my full time job as well as my only income. I wish we would do away
with the snapper IFQ, go to an overall fleet Quota,with a reasonable and equal trip
quota for everyone, no matter how much money you have,how big your boat is or
how many people you know.Everyone should be given the chance to make a
living. When I go fishing, I am doing it to provide for my family and when I have to
watch as baracuda and dolphin feast on hundreds of pounds of red snapper that I
have to let go instead keeping, selling and in return providing for my family It
makes me sick!! If grouper goes to IFQ I am out of a job. There has got to be a
better way where everyone wins and not just a few. Afterall this is AMERICA
where everyone is or at least should be equal.
Comment from Brian Fletcher, American people
This is comment on Proposed Rule
Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Referendum Procedures for a Potential Gulf of Mexico Grouper and Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program
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