[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Ray

Dredging is not that bad, if they only let the ones brave and tough enough to tong, be able to dredge.

Dredging may be good, but not when the number of boats triples.

If you are too lazy to tong oysters, you shouldn't be allowed to have 5 licenses.
Or even have 1 license.

Dredging a limit and tonging a limit is the same, except dredging is faster. They
still end up with the same number of sacks at the end of the day.

No one is going to have 5 boats with 5 licenses if they were tonging. They would
have only 1 license cause it is tough work.

Oystering should be easily manageable, but it takes too long for the gov't officials
to make decisions. ONLY after a resource is wiped out, do they do anything.

Same with the Pintail population. Limit of 10 per day, till they are wiped out. Only
then did they do something. They all say they have to do a study first.

Fishermen and hunters see the decline in their favorite resources. The
ones regulating it don't.

I know some Oyster fishermen who made the same complaints. They hate
seeing outsiders or other lazy asses start fishing Oysters, only after the
LDWF started allowing dredging.

The ones who toughed it out tonging will hurt now. The others will just hold
out their hand so the gov't can give them money for killing off their Oysters.
The ones they would harvest when there was only tonging allowed.

Ray, what are you doing May 19th? You would be a great expert witness infront of the Department of Natural Resources Committee in Baton Rouge.