Today Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham and the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission announced significant openings to recreational fishing. With this action, approximately 86 percent of recreational fishing in Louisiana will be open immediately today, July 14.
"The measures taken today by the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission will allow recreational anglers, including recreational shrimping, crabbing and fishing, to resume," said LDWF Secretary Robert Barham. "While I am pleased and fully support today?s action, I caution all fishermen to exercise caution while fishing in areas closed to commercial fishing."
This opening includes licensed charter boat guides and bait fishermen or dealers who harvest for and sell to recreational fishermen exclusively.
Let's hope they don't turn around and reverse this again.
We make comparisons...we live a comparative way of life. Consciously or subconsciously we live life selecting between things and events and other encounters. Like good and bad; better and best; the lessor of two evils...I probably need not continue. I take nothing away from the event I mention now. It was July 20, 1969, a great day for mankind...perhaps one of the greatest. As an 18 year old kid hangin' out on a hot summers' night watching the television with my friends as Neil Armstrong embedded mankind's first footprint on the lunar surface and recorded these forever echoing words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Truly a great event on the timeline of earth.
How will July 13, 2010, be remembered? Perhaps you'll join with me in great hope and prayer that it is with these words, "One small cap for BP, one enormous plug for the inhabitants and the entire ecosystem of the United States Gulf Coast and beyond."
Comparisons...Your Choice! I wish or a prayer...again, your choice.
Quoting our friend Captain Keith Kennedy in the AP update early this morning, "At this point, there have been so many ups and downs, disappointments, that everybody down here is like, 'We'll believe it when we see it,'" said Keith Kennedy, a charter boat captain in Venice, La.
