- Messages
- 5,884
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- Location
- Lake Worth, Florida, United States
- # of dives
- I'm a Fish!
The "fisherman" are not involved in the "take" of Frogfish or Seahorses, or 99.9 percent of the species and volume of life that the resource has become famous for --for divers.
As a user group, I see no problem at all with the recreational fisherman sharing this resource with us...and it was their's first, anyway.
Collectors are a different matter.
As to DD suggesting my suggestions are inherently wrong.....When the founding fathers of the US , drew up the "Declaration of Independance", the Brits would definitely have considered this Wrong and they would attempt to punish this wrong thinking...Much like the collectors
However, the People of America believed the British laws were wrong, and that the King was not in touch with the needs of the people.
They DEMANDED change. The result was a new rule of what was right and wrong.
There is no Revolution here at the BHB..but there is incorrect Law...and the masses that dive this resource, will agree that collection should be illegal. When the correct governing bodies become aware of the incorrect laws, I believe they make the changes the majority of divers and marine biologists are asking for--and this will end the collecting.
Thus, we have a real need to PUBLICIZE the wrongfulness of the collecting, to document, and to bring the masses together in this.
As a user group, I see no problem at all with the recreational fisherman sharing this resource with us...and it was their's first, anyway.
Collectors are a different matter.
As to DD suggesting my suggestions are inherently wrong.....When the founding fathers of the US , drew up the "Declaration of Independance", the Brits would definitely have considered this Wrong and they would attempt to punish this wrong thinking...Much like the collectors
However, the People of America believed the British laws were wrong, and that the King was not in touch with the needs of the people.
They DEMANDED change. The result was a new rule of what was right and wrong.
There is no Revolution here at the BHB..but there is incorrect Law...and the masses that dive this resource, will agree that collection should be illegal. When the correct governing bodies become aware of the incorrect laws, I believe they make the changes the majority of divers and marine biologists are asking for--and this will end the collecting.
Thus, we have a real need to PUBLICIZE the wrongfulness of the collecting, to document, and to bring the masses together in this.
