Comment from Bill Abbott, Individual

Document ID: NOAA-NMFS-2009-0031-0003
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
Received Date: March 16 2009, at 02:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: April 21 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: February 25 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: March 27 2009, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80914c7b
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic: Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Bottom Longline Petition

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I wholeheartedly endorse the immediate closing of the long-line fishery until NMFS has the opportunity to draft regulations to end the excessive take of sea turtles, drafts such regulations and implements them. Anything short of such a halt and subsequent regulations, scientifically based, to reduce the by-catch to levels determined to be sufficient to improve the stock is not acceptable.

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Public Submission Posted: 04/21/2009 ID: NOAA-NMFS-2009-0031-0002