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RMA N-59: Ban the Practice of Spearfishing on SCUBA to Enable Sustainable Use of Our Florida Reefs RMA N-59: Ban the practice of spearfishing on SCUBA to enable sustainable use of our Florida Reefs. RMA improve RMA interest county reef improve support this Submitted Name Interests in reef if other county if other ecosystem? life? RMA? support or change to support? other comments? Ref # If the idea is to have more fish on the reef, like you see in the Bahamas, then you should change the size limit, number, and season for fishing for specific species. 2016-03-03 Definitely Definitely Doing away with spearfishing on SCUBA will have a 22:44:36 DIVING BROWARD Not Sure Not Not negative impact on the local economy. 1514 I support anything that will help protect the entire coral reef ecosystem. We should follow the lead of 2016-03-03 FISHING, DIVING, other countries and implement this plan. Should 15:40:13 N.P.F. BOATING Definitely So Definitely So Definitely So exclude lionfish. 1496 Well, one thing that is a joke is the thought that as a spear fisherman after you have made it illegal to hunt any type of fish at all is the thought I'm going diving to target lion fish. Go get them yourself. 2nd. Divers go out and target fish, just like any other fisher-person. We actually as compared to regular fisher-people leave almost nothing on the bottom, no lead weight, no mono fishing line, no damage to fish we throw back, no gut hooked fish. We as a group actually see what we are hunting for. There is truth we target certain fish, but so does everyone else. We just don't do damage to hundreds of other fish getting what we want. I have dived the keys for over forty years. They are 3rd. As a forty plus year diver, I am sure I have less in bad shape. But again it is not the divers fault. interaction with the reef than the average shear I came back from a cruise in May of 1982, and read pleasure diver. the 7 mile bridge had just opened. One of the things that came with that, a much larger water line to the 4th. It is not the divers fault that the reefs are in such keys. All the water they needed. That year when I poor shape, pollution, pollution, pollution. came down, was the first year in the canals behind Almost all real damage to the reefs is land based. the houses you could not see bottom. Next year, was the first year we could not see bottom in the I do fully support closed seasons, limits. But the truth channels. It has just gotten worse. Reason septic is just taking out spearfishing will not get you where tanks. Also, the sugar growers. Florida bay is a 2016-03-02 Definitely Definitely you want to be. all it will do is make a group of people natural algae growth place with all the added 11:09:32 Steve Howell DIVING pinellas Likely Not Not Not want to work against you. fertilizer. Pollution, pollution, pollution. 1484 FISHING, DIVING, BOATING, No spear fishing at all, but I no that is not realistic. The 2016-03-02 PROTECTION, MIAMI- least we can do is give them a fair chance and not be 10:55:13 Mercedes Christian OTHER MS DADE Definitely So Definitely So Definitely So on Scuba. 1483 2016-03-01 DIVING, BOATING, MIAMI- 23:05:10 Michael Beach PROTECTION FL DADE Definitely So Definitely So Definitely So 1444 FISHING, DIVING, 2016-03-01 BOATING, PALM 23:00:42 PROTECTION BEACH Definitely So Definitely So Definitely So 1439 2016-03-01 PALM 18:28:00 DIVING BEACH Likely Not Sure Definitely So 1397 This RMA is not supported by the scientific references provided. Two references (Frisch et al. 2008 and Frisch et al. 2012) conclude that spearfishing and hook and line fishing have comparable impacts on fish populations and that fishing regulations should apply equally to both methods. Other sources (example: Godoy et al. 2010) are studies from areas where fishing of any kind has little or no regulation or enforcement, including size, species, and bag limits. In general, the majority of examples provided are from areas where a) the purpose of spearfishing is for Overall comment (also applies to MPA RMA) - this subsistence and b) via various means (spearfishing or RMA was not "sold" with hard quantitative or otherwise) the food web has been fished down to the qualitative data for the SEFCRI region. Landings, point where herbivores such as scarids are the most changes in the maximum sizes of fish or in landings common catch. of a particular species, etc. were not presented as a rationale for this action in the references or public If protection of larger mature individuals or spawning meetings. The purpose as described to me was aggregations is the desired outcome, species-specific (paraphrase) that "we need to remove as many spatial/temporal closures, increases in the minimum stressors from the coral reef as possible." Data from size limit, or slot limits would be more targeted the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary has conservation measures than an all-out ban on a shown that protection of reef fish appears to have particular highly selective fishing method with little effect on coral cover; this is especially true for FISHING, DIVING, comparatively few participants to other, surface-based areas of the SEFCRI region where primary targets for 2016-03-01 BOATING, MIAMI- Definitely fishing methods. SCUBA and freedive spearfishers are pelagic 18:27:08 Stephen Trbovich PROTECTION DADE Likely Not Likely Not Not carnivores such as cobia and kingfish. 1396 I am personally shocked at the lack of study, research, and gathering of scientific data to support such a decision. The “Our Florida Reefs” goals are clearly noble but to actually have the intended result, they need to be based upon facts and statistics. There are no scientific or academic studies on the US Atlantic Seaboard to understand the impact of recreational spearfishing on scuba. There are no predictions based upon observed statistical facts to model possible outcomes of such a ban. I have read all of the cited references and most of them address non- related situations and therefore I am unable to find an agreed Florida fact base to support such a decision. (Data from other oceans collected in a non-scientific and random manner should not be used to support decisions whose outcome may well be totally different from the desired outcome.) I would personally like to know what “Our Florida Reefs” are doing to address the following, each of which has a far larger impact on our coral reefs: Anchoring on coral reefs – on every dive in Palm Beach and Broward Counties, multiple entangled anchors are seen lodged in the coral that they have damaged and broken? Extensive damage from high strength abrasive fishing 2016-03-01 PALM Definitely Definitely lines that have become caught in the coral, and 17:41:07 Peter De Villiers DIVING BEACH Likely Not Not Not subsequently severed the barrel and tube sponges as 1379 well as the sea fans? Lobster traps dumped on top of the coral? Commercial spearfishing for the sale of thousands of pounds of specific fish types to the restaurant and hotel industry each week? All the failed ideas that have been implemented without proper research such as the depositing of used vehicle tires to form artificial reefs and that now seem to be covering the ocean floor and precluding all marine life? The huge amount of plastic in the ocean off Palm Beach and Broward Counties. Florida supermarkets still provide free plastic bags, and cruise ships based in the 3 ports covered by this initiative deposit plastic into the sea as evidenced by beach flotsam. I support gathering factual data on exactly what fish are being removed by what means, and based upon this data making decisions. Spearfishing while on Scuba is a challenging way to harvest fish. The noise associated with Scuba ensures that fish have advance notice of the presence of predators, and the very nature of spearfishing ensures that there is zero bycatch associated with this method of harvest. We have amazing academic institutions right here in our four county area. Lets collaborate with them to build the foundational data base upon which to make decisions that achieve the desired outcome 2016-03-01 17:22:24 FISHING, DIVING Definitely So Definitely So Definitely So 1352 With regards to the 'Our Florida Reefs' process and the resulting Recommended Management Actions: Due to the lack of scientific basis I oppose any action on the following proposals. N-59: Ban Spearfishing on SCUBA N-64: Require Registration of Fishing Gear in St. Lucie Inlet Preserve N-137: Designate SEFCRI Region as PSSA or ATBA S-8: Establish Coral Reefs Gardens S-54: Apply for Florida Reef Tract to be Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site S-65: Nominate SEFCRI Region as a National Marine Sanctuary S-97: Reduce Bag Limit to 6 per Person per Day During Lobster Mini Season The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) wrote a letter telling the group that Florida already has effective management plans in place. Perhaps the working group should listen. 2016-03-01 Fishing Rights Definitely Definitely Definitely Ignoring existing science because the working group 16:43:17 Alliance DIVING Not Not Not Change it to 'considered but rejected'. members 'know better' is unacceptable. That a 1326 National Marine Fisheries Service scientist known for anti-fishing and anti-spearfishing sentiments is guiding this effort is incomprehensible.
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