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kenai
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/11/2008 : 14:36:22
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Date Submitted: 04/10/2007Guide type: Both
I am not infavor of limited entry for anyone, in fact I would take it away from the commercial fishermen if that were in my power. Unfortunately I believe the nonguided angler is driving most of this ADF&G Limited Entry attempt.
The nonguided anglers prospective is pretty basic. They go to their favorite fishing hole and there is a guide boat catching fish after fish, day after day. While they catch little to nothing, day after day. They go to their favorite backup fishing hole and there is a guide boat catching fish after fish, day after day. While they catch little to nothing. They go to the hole that nobody knows about and there is a guide boat catching fish after fish. While they catch little to nothing. They can only imagine a single solution, and that is the removal or at least the reduction of the guide boats. That is when you begin to hear words like "moratorium or limited entry" attached to "only" guided anglers.
I understand the people out there that claim that it doesn't make much sense to create limit entry for sport fish guides and then end up with a more costly or inferior products or services. Unfortunately the proponents of a sport fish limited entry system for Alaska, do not care if the concept makes any sense, they just want their fishing competition to go away. They do not care what vehicle is used to make it go away, only that it goes away.
Nonguided anglers do not care if "their LE solution" makes any sense. Making sense is not their point. They just want their guided fishing competition to be gone just like most hunters and fishers want to never see anybody ever standing in "their fishen hole" or "their hunten spot". This is the same reason folks pay out thousands of dollars by cranking up their planes and fly for hundreds of miles to get away from the mobs. The only real difference is that these "limited entry folks" are asking the State of Alaska to pay for their trip rather than them paying for it themselves! This is a typical "Tom Sawyer type" example of trying to get your neighbor to do your work for you and thus allowing you to "theoretically" catch more fish. This Limited Entry attempt is mainly nothing but a selfish attempt by a bunch of nonguided people, to feather their own little "fishen nest" and they are attempting to USE the ADF&G in the process.
http://www.sf.adfg.state.ak.us/statewide/guides/GFeedback.cfm?StartRow=31
Don
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Not Infavor Of Limited Entry For Anyone
