tight rope walker
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First and foremost I am old enough to pick my battles thank you. When I was 13 I wrote a letter to the editor of the Middletown press complaing of water quality in connecticut. That was a long long time ago, and I knew what to do back then.
The money that was won from the tobacco companies was supposed to be used to help people stop smoking. Look on the web site and see where all that money went.
I believe it was in New Bedford Massachusetts, at a public forum where a old time commercial fisherman was quoted as saying," we should be ashamed of our selves for what we have done to the fishing stocks".
The Connecticut saltwater fishing license started out at ten dollars then quickly went to 20.
Why?
But you still did not answer my question, why don't you move back here and solve all our problems? As you seem to have all the answers.
I would like to get you in a room of old timers, so you could hear for yourself what the fisherman themselves are saying.
Finally, how do you know what species of fish a fisherman would like to catch? Pound for pound, a bluefish will out fight a striper any day of the week.
And if you were old enogh to follow the saga of the sriped bass, you would know that at one time they were on the brink. The only reason they have come back as they have is because commercial fisherman can not take them. And the only reason there are so many in Connecticut is because they are not as many migrating to the Chesapeake anymore, but deciding to stay here instead.
If you go up the Thames river, up to Norwich, even in the dead of winter, you will find them stacked up in the harbor. This is public knowledge and has been on many fishing shows.
When you have a modern, efficient, fishing fleet, that is in business to turn a profit at any cost, it's hard for me to wrap myself around the idea that that recreational rod and reel fisherman had anything to do with where we are now.
Or do you consider the individual who goes out to cut a couple of trees down to heat his house, on the same page as the company who clears thousands of acres?
The money that was won from the tobacco companies was supposed to be used to help people stop smoking. Look on the web site and see where all that money went.
I believe it was in New Bedford Massachusetts, at a public forum where a old time commercial fisherman was quoted as saying," we should be ashamed of our selves for what we have done to the fishing stocks".
The Connecticut saltwater fishing license started out at ten dollars then quickly went to 20.
Why?
But you still did not answer my question, why don't you move back here and solve all our problems? As you seem to have all the answers.
I would like to get you in a room of old timers, so you could hear for yourself what the fisherman themselves are saying.
Finally, how do you know what species of fish a fisherman would like to catch? Pound for pound, a bluefish will out fight a striper any day of the week.
And if you were old enogh to follow the saga of the sriped bass, you would know that at one time they were on the brink. The only reason they have come back as they have is because commercial fisherman can not take them. And the only reason there are so many in Connecticut is because they are not as many migrating to the Chesapeake anymore, but deciding to stay here instead.
If you go up the Thames river, up to Norwich, even in the dead of winter, you will find them stacked up in the harbor. This is public knowledge and has been on many fishing shows.
When you have a modern, efficient, fishing fleet, that is in business to turn a profit at any cost, it's hard for me to wrap myself around the idea that that recreational rod and reel fisherman had anything to do with where we are now.
Or do you consider the individual who goes out to cut a couple of trees down to heat his house, on the same page as the company who clears thousands of acres?