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| ETHICAL ANGLING ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN LATE SUMMER |
Recreational anglers can do a lot to help conserve marine fisheries resources by learning how to handle the fish they catch and release. This is especially true in late summer, when, for the fish, it becomes more of a life or death concern.
Research has shown that as sea water temperatures rise, so do post-release mortality rates for many species, such as red drum, striped bass and trout. Also, the longer a fish is out of the water, the less its chance for survival.
Anglers should handle fish gently and as little as possible before returning them to the water. Prevent the fish from thrashing around and hurting itself by gently gripping its body, keeping your fingers away from the gills. Larger fish, such as tarpon, can sustain internal injuries from being dragged on board a boat.
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| 21 Aug 2009 - 10:22 by CCA North Carolina |
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| NOAA catch-share program threatens recreational angling |
CCA questions federal program of resource giveaways
In a letter to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Special Advisor Monica Medina, Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) voiced opposition to a federal fisheries management initiative that gives fixed percentages of various fisheries to commercial fishers. CCA acknowledged that the concept, known as a catch-share program, can be effective in purely commercial fisheries, but stressed that it presents serious problems when applied to fisheries that have both commercial and recreational participation.
"Catch shares are obviously a major focus for this Administration and we are concerned not only about the impact they have on recreational fisheries, but also at the pace with which they are being pushed into the management system," said Chester Brewer, chairman of the CCA National Government Relations Committee.
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| 7 Aug 2009 - 10:57 by CCA North Carolina |
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| CCA CALLS FOR BALANCED APPROACH TO RED SNAPPER CRISIS |
In late 2006, Congress passed a significantly strengthened Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Management and Conservation Act, the overriding piece of legislation that guides federal fisheries management. Among other progressive provisions, the new law required managers to end overfishing by 2010. Only a year later, a stock assessment for South Atlantic red snapper, the first modern stock assessment ever done on the species, was released and proclaimed red snapper undergoing severe overfishing and so grossly overfished that it was instantly a full-blown crisis discovered right under managers' noses.
Now those two events are colliding and recreational anglers from North Carolina to Florida are caught squarely in the middle.
"This is a perfect storm for fisheries management, and the system is clearly not designed to handle this type of unforeseen and unforeseeable situation," said Richen Brame, Atlantic States Fisheries Director for Coastal Conservation Association (CCA). "If the science on red snapper is correct, then managers need to act. However, we believe that the measures that would be implemented for a stock that had been willfully mismanaged for 40 years should not be the same as those implemented for a stock such as this that has been ignored for 40 years and suddenly appears on the radar in a critically depressed condition."
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| 4 Aug 2009 - 15:50 by CCA North Carolina |
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