Comment from Russell Daggett, Sarah Gale/Anne Marie

i have been lobstering/ groundfishing my whole life. i have seen all my groundfish days taken away back in the nineteen ninties because i did not use them. i could not raise my family of 5 so i stayed lobstering with the permit attached to a groundfish permit that was worth nothing. since the last 15 years i have been filling out log books just so i dont have my lobster permit taken awey. since 2005 i have bought my way back in the groundfishing for thousands and more thousands. and now you want to take more by limiting the people that have been lobstering in area 1 by doing what you did to me with my groundfish permit back in the ninties by doing that you will be putting more pressure in the state waters and not to say how many lobstermen and there families out busines and if there like myself thats all they ever done so stop and think real hard.