Comment from w btm

Document ID: NOAA-NMFS-2011-0273-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
Received Date: December 13 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Date Posted: December 21 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: November 30 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: December 30 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80f8173b
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic: Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico, Commercial Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Control Date

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Change the control dates? I say, scrap the contrived Red Snapper IFQ completely and CORRECTLY diivide the shares. The original IFQ share program was contrived from the beginning...with the Closs 1 permit holder allowed to vote and the Class 2 permit holder unable to do anything but watch and get screwed by both the council and NMFS as it was un-cerimonilly declared that we (Class II permit holders) were NOT REAL FISHERMEN. A program started without even being allowed to vote on it....is a travesty at best...an smacks of a "contrived" situation. As was stated when it was originally designed, Red Snapper have become...and will continue to be a "nuisance", and thought of as A "TRASH FISH", FOR FEW.....IF ANY will have the money to purchase shares "whisked" away by "caviot"!

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Comment from thomas Adams
Public Submission Posted: 12/05/2011 ID: NOAA-NMFS-2011-0273-0002