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FLORIDA: Red-snapper tagging begins |
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From 25 miles offshore, the storm looked like a black tongue of night
swallowing the western horizon, the direction a crew of three scientists
and four fishermen would have to motor to make it back to the safety of
Ponce de Leon Inlet.
Their trip earlier this week was the maiden voyage of the Florida East Coast Cooperative Red Snapper Tagging Program, a study being conducted by Florida's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Commercial and recreational anglers will soon be able to receive tagging kits at training seminars on participating in the program. Collaboration between government scientists and fishermen represents a sharp turn in their debate over red snapper bans, which fisheries managers have called "the most controversial" situation in South Atlantic fisheries management history. Read the complete story from The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
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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."
