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FLORIDA: Fishermen Say Regulations Killing Business |
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Fishermen from across the Panhandle plan to participate in a protest march at the National Marine Fisheries Headquarters in St. Petersburg this Friday.
The protest falls on the first anniversary of the fishermen rally on Capitol Hill. They're angry about the fishing regulations imposed by the Magnuson Stevens Act and say the regulations are only getting worse. It's been no fairytale down on the Destin docks. "If this keeps going the way it's going, and they keep limiting us on what we can fish for and what we can keep, it's going to whittle down our customers and will end up putting us out of business" says Captain Steve Brown. The Magnuson Stevens Act is legislation deigned to regulate fisheries at a sustainable level. Federal officials used it last year to shorten or close Red Snapper, Amberjack and Grouper seasons, claiming the catches were becoming dangerously low. Fishermen dispute those claims. Read the complete story from WJHG.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
