Oyster Protest!

[Ray]

Here is the problem.
It not the dredges, it is the number of them.

[evis102]

You should see what a reef looks like on side scan sonar after dredging. I just wish I had the forethought to save my sonar runs.

[Ray]

It will take 3 to 5 years for the Oysters to get to legal size after they close the season. That is just legal. Not the ones the market buyers like.
West Cove Oysters were not as marketable as East Side Oysters. East Side were more plump.
West Cove Oysters are actually overpopulated. They should have let them hit those first and save the East side.

["W"]

They had more than 145 boats last year......I counted 69 on Basket one day..and they had about 40 on LSU south and another 50 in front of old jetties

[Ray]

Most landings in one day for 2010 was 190 in January.
Those numbers in the graph were average boats per day for the 2009/2010 season.

[Ray]

And those numbers were for the dredging only. Not tonging.
Dredging started in 2004.