[B.Attitude]

Friday I recieve a letter from the National Marine Fisheries stating that the tuna and shark permits are now available for renewals and for first time applicants.
paulie

(This post edited by B.Attitude on 04/21/2003)

 

[howfishe]

Permits

Ordered mine on Monday night 04-07-03 got it in the mail Friday 04-11-03! I would take the option of printing it on line, the mailed verision is the same as if you just printed it.

 

[617110]

here is a link to purchase online

You will be able to purchase your permit on line at for $22.00.
get your permits here

like stated above, you can print them up right off the computer

 

[highhook]

Shark permit...

Now they added shark, where is all the money going????

 

[leakyrivot]

Hopefully the $$ is funding some degree of intelligent activity surrounding shark reg's.. I think shark permits are a good idea, everything I've ever read claims the species aren't doing so well. Getting a handle on who and how many are using that fishery is important..

It's odd though that reporting of shark landings/harvesting has not yet been mandated - that's probably coming next.

Jon

 

[highhook]

I would agree if....

Not looking to start any big debates here and I do agree if it helps the fishery the $22 is cheap, but I have yet to see any great management ability out of the Federal Gov.

The tuna fishery is still far from great.

The Stripe Bass came back not because they were pro active, but because of PCB's of which they should of caught long before they found it within the fish.

 

[psciacca]

The NMFS states on its on the permit Web site (or perhaps in the permit paperwork), I believe, that most of the money goes to actually paying for the administrative costs of running the permit program. Ironic, isn't it?

 

[Eric S]

From a recent article in Big Game Journal by Len Belcaro, its very clear that NMFS operates entirely for the benefit of commercial fisherman. After several credible studies documenting the rapid decline in shark populations, they are proposing to "remove the current 4,000 pound dressed weight trip limit .... leaving no limits or no quota". They are taking similar actions in the longline fishery, putting bag limits on recreational swordfishing, while opening up areas of Florida for "experimental" fishing for small swordfish, and have $3 million to pay longliners. This is in an area just starting to recover from longline decimation. For 2002, longliners reported 27,000 dead discarded juvenile swordfish under 47", which recreational landings were reported to be 505 fish. In 1997 longliners discarded 5,517 dead white and blue marlin, and in 2000 they killed 3,392. Sorry to rant, but it was an eye-opening article, and we all need to get involved in putting pressure on our government.