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Originally Posted by speck-chaser
Well, all I know is that Ive never caught a 3 tail, so Im writing to Obama and complain about all them better fishermen out there that wont give me my fair share.  |
I don't remember if I ever caught a tripletail as a child, certainly I haven't in my adult life. But the broader issue is whether or not it is wise for a few whiners peddling pseudoscience to criminalize harmless activities pursued by others.
And this business that sound science is not possible with a migratory species is bunk. Each year, the SEAMAP program takes icthyoplankton cruises sampling thorough out the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. The data on larval finfishes includes tripletail at least back to the early eighties. If the breeding size fish were recently imperiled by fishing, the data would show a pronounced decrease in larval specimens of this species.