. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Digging with tongs for clams. When they wrote the plan, it was written in such a way that allowed black sea bass pot fishing to ; But, says Mahood, fishermen could no longer possess fish pots on board if they were fishing for snapper/ grouper species with hook and line or hydraulic lines. And, says Shepard, "if you went to a black sea bass pot with anything other than sea bass in it, you had to throw 'em ; In the past, the odd marketable species caught in a bass pot could help
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Digging with tongs for clams. When they wrote the plan, it was written in such a way that allowed black sea bass pot fishing to ; But, says Mahood, fishermen could no longer possess fish pots on board if they were fishing for snapper/ grouper species with hook and line or hydraulic lines. And, says Shepard, "if you went to a black sea bass pot with anything other than sea bass in it, you had to throw 'em ; In the past, the odd marketable species caught in a bass pot could help you meet your fuel expenses for that trip, says Shepard. Shepard and two other fishermen made a trip to Key West to appeal the regulation, and upon review, the council agreed one vote short of unanimous to recommend an emer- gency rule correcting the problem. The dissenting vote came from the NMFS representative on the council. Shepard says the NMFS representative is instructed never to vote in favor of an Scott D. Taylor emergency rule because a unanimous vote by the council would oblige the Secretary of Commerce to approve it. Even though this particular rule was ultimately approved by the secretary, this policy often makes NMFS the odd man out, says Shepard. Bill Hogarth, who heads the state's Division of Marine Fisheries, says this kind of politics doesn't help the already tenuous relationship between watermen and Washington. "It makes you look sort of stupid as far as they (fishermen) are con- cerned," says Hogarth. "I think it's extremely difficult to get the national office to back off once they've made a ; At the state level, he says, "it's a lot easier to manipulate a problem politically by just screaming and hollering at ; Even though the trip resulted in a victory for Shepard, he says it cost him and his companions close to $5,000 in time and traveling expenses to correct a management mistake they think should never have happ
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