Rep Patrick back at it, tuna this time...Hearing tomorrow (wednesday)

[tunatamer73]

Hey Alloytoy, I am up in Greenfield. This guys is from Hamp,one of the most liberal towns in this state? What an a$$. He probly never wet a line in his life and is listening to all of these pussy and tree hugging manly women in his town. This is the P-Town of western mass. Peta friendly. I say we send a spreader bar far up his a$$!!!!!

[AlloyToy]

Hey Tuna...I grew up there...before it was all tofu eaters, gays, and bull Dyke's with hairy armpits......and I know Peter Kocot, and his family.......his dad was my football coach.....

Anyway I'll say it again....I don't know how this Democratic inland weasel could get involved in the BFT fishery......

I'd say we go for an 15' outrigger pole instead of a spreader bar

[tomytuna]

you guys did a supper job on this subject! Stay after them. Let Patrick know we're watching!

[Fishypantsmagoo]

Public Hearing on H764: An Act relative to conserving bluefin tuna

February 25, 2010 at 12PM in Room 437

[Fishypantsmagoo]

Public Hearing Tomorrow, I will be there. Anyone else going?

[relentless]

What happened on this hearing, did anyone attend?

Capt Dave

[WAHOONBOX]

HERE IT IS SATURDAY MORNING AND NO REPORT FROM THE GUYS WHO ATTENDED THE MEETING??? WAS THERE BLOOD SPILLED? ANYONE GET A SPREADER BAR SHOVED UP THE OL CHUTE? DID ANYONE SPEAK AT THIS PUBLIC MEETING?

I'M STANDING BY FOR THE REPORT!

[twofinbluna]

Wahoonbox

I did not make it down from Maine but I know a couple of people that did, and they said that it did not sound like this was going to be going anywhere. Fishermen did speak the hearing. A waste of tax payer money is what this would be. I will let some of the guys on here that went post their reports and will just leave it at that.

[Cpt Dave]

The Vineyard Gazette
Current Edition:
Friday, March 5, 2010

Striped Bass Bill Dead in the WaterBy MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
A state legislator’s effort to make striped bass a recreational fish only is dead for now. The state’s Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture has sent the proposal back for further study.

House Bill 796, filed by Falmouth representative Matthew C. Patrick, would have closed striped bass fishing to all but recreational fishermen. The bill was filed a year ago.

Opposition to the bill came from coastal communities including Chatham and the Vineyard. Warren Doty, cochairman of the Dukes County/Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Association, and a group of commercial fishermen testified at the state house in mid-January, opposing the bill.

Proponents of the bill, many of them members of the organization Stripers Forever, claimed fish stocks in these waters were in such decline from Maine to Massachusetts that additional steps needed to be taken now to protect the fish.

Rep. Tim Madden, who sits on the committee, together with local Senator Robert O’Leary, said he was struck by how much interest the bill prompted. “It was one of the largest attended hearings held by the committee,” Mr. Madden said. “The commercial fishermen did an excellent job countering the efforts of Stripers Forever. They had good responses to their issues. Quite frankly, I think Stripers Forever came up short in their science.”