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I am not against honest commercial interest. I am against preferential treatment at the expense of the Spiny Lobster future! If starting the season early for trappers will not endanger the species. Start the season for everybody commercial and recreational. If you plan to come to Florida and...

Here is a new heads up from the Spiny Lobster advisory Board. The commercial trappers due to their losses caused by the hurricanes during the 2005-2006 season. They are asking the FWC Commision to let them place their trapps on July 10, 2006 and start pulling on July 15, 2006. and leave the mini...

Packhorse I have tried to send you several private messages I guess it didn,t work. Do they use den traps in your area? If they do could you send me a description and measurements or a site that I might find the info. If you wonder why, look at the tread florida spiny lobster. Thanks

I don"t have any pictures. I guess I should bring one on board and take some pictures. Next summer I will try to rember to do that. The patch is light to dark located just above the break of the tail, that is the lower hard plates of the body.

In Florida, U.S.A. Spiny Lobster [crawfish ] the caprice must be larger than 3 inches The daily legal limit is 6 per person. for recreational divers and 250 per day for commercial divers.

Lobsters with eggs can not be taken. What you are calling a tar patch is a sperm patch this is on the lower part of the body just before the tail. This is found on a female that has not laid her eggs, her body cavity will have roe in it . It is legal to take them, however when you do you will...

Thanks for your input I like to hear both sides and I placed an apology to all of you honest commercial divers in Florida sportsman diving forum and I believe I also apologized in one of my replys here. If you were diving in the lower keys these structures would also be affecting you. Thats why...

This is a great reply! I couldn't have said it better. Your mini season stamp is a great idea I was trying to figure away to address the problem without doing away with mini season all together.

I was not suggesting a change in mini-season. If you can't see that a season limit of 100lob per recreational lobster diver would be a more equitable allocation of a resource that belongs to all the people of all the people of Florida not just the commercial interest. Or how this would not be a...

Looks like we dive in the same area. Why don't you go over to florida sportsman conservation forum. I have some guys over there that think all the structures is just a few car hoods or old appilances. Maybe we need to take some pictures of the structures to post? I don't think that would be...

Thanks for the help it looks like you and diver d3 will be able to hold down the fort this week while I am helping a friend rewire his boat. Thanks again for your support.

Hi thank a lot for the assitance I need it I won't have much time on the computer this next week I will be helping a friend rewire his boat this week. Appreceat you picking up the banner it appears you and I think alike. Thanks again for your support.

welcome aboard great letter, thanks for joining with us. You can break one stick at a time but it will take a lot of pressure to break a bundle.

AT last there are some other people out their that understand. Great letter. Some very good points.

We don't all have the luxury of living in the Florida Keys where we can go out and catch what we need every day. Some of us travel great distances to enjoy what you can enjoy every day. We spend as little as two or three days to several months. Most of us would like to have some return on our...

I miss read your letter the first time and I can't spell. So lets try this again The original rule stated 6per person or 24per vessel which ever was greater. In other words 2 people on the boat could bring in 24lob while 6 people could bring in 36lob. This was changed 2 years ago to 6lob per...

They took away the 24per boat rule 2 years ago. It's only 24per person per day know for the honest folks that don't double dip.

I would reather clean my boat and dive gear while the crew cleans the fish and lobster.To own a boat you realy need to enjoy working on it. I spend more time in my boat while it's on dry land then when its in the water.

Good point. If the FWC removed the structure diving law and restored the 24 per vessel limit we would have to park ten boats over only one casita and we still would leave enough crawfish so that the next boat that found it would think it had not been worked. At that the commercial take would...

Thanks, I was begining to think you might be the wife or girl frend of one of the outlaw divers.