Boycott the S.T.A.R.: CCA Failed to protect Oysters in Big Lake

[keakar]

Originally Posted by jl8200

It wasn't till the beginning of this year till I had a boat that I could fish all over the lake with so previously I never fished the south part of the lake much. I still am stunned at all of the oyster dredge boats that you see "parked" all over the place in the south part of the lake. I don't see how there are enough oysters in the lake to sustain all of those boats. Its crazy the amount of people dredging. I don't see how there's any oyster left in the lake.

its like that across the state in all areas, they should outlaw dredging the same way they did gill nets and make them go back to tonging or hand harvesting them only.

dredging "rapes" the bottom and leaves nothing but destruction and long term loss of fish habitat behind wherever it goes.

I know of several prime areas that more often then not always held limits of fish but after they were raped by the dredgers and 6 years later you still cant pick up more then a dink here or there in those locations if that even