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 STOP COMMERCIAL MENHADEN NETTING SAVE OUR POGIES..GAME ON! - 04/25/2005
Ladies and Gentlemen....start your pogies! This is it...call to arms...game on! Our bill to SAVE OUR POGIES[HB-955] will be heard by the Environment and Natural Resources Committee at the State Legislature Tuesday May 3, 2005. This is what we have been waiting on and now we must go on the full court press to do everything we can to get our message to the elected Reps who make up this committee. The committe consists of Reps throughout the State and as such many of them probably don't know the difference between a pogy and a menhaden. They are getting bombarded by the lobbyist from Omega Proteins and Beaufort Fisheries and now they need to hear from the people who elected them to office...YOU; their constituents. We need for everyone to agressively make direct contact with these Reps from your respective home districts and point out to them the importance of this issue to you and request they vote to support the effort. What the bill asks for is restrictions on commercial menhaden netting from April thru November thus preserving this important bait fish for the predador game fish that migrate through our waters during that time of the year. This issue is of utmost economic impact importance to our coastal area, as when the bait fish are gone the predador game fish leave and when the game fish leave the fishermen leave, thus adversely impacting our coastal economy.
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