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Don't know where your from, but until a few years ago I lived in FL and never had a problem with getting sea food or the price.

I still live in Florida and things are not so rosy now thanks to the "net-ban" constitutional amendment passed in 1994.

We used to have plenty of fresh sea food markets and plenty of reasonably priced seafood restaurants here. We don't anymore thanks to the efforts of one magazine, radical environmenatlists and idiot voters.

Actually, most of the net ban support in Florida was from recreational fishermen, who are overwhelmingly Republicans.

And it saved your recreational fishery which generates billions of dollars more income for Florida than your commercial fishery.

It's interesting how people who don't fish or who don't know jack squat about the ocean on FR always question commercial overfishing articles.

It's not invented environmentalist BS. It's real. Commercial fishermen have a history of destroying fishery after fishery.

We used to have plenty of fresh sea food markets and plenty of reasonably priced seafood restaurants here. We don't anymore thanks to the efforts of one magazine, radical environmenatlists and idiot voters.

Get a clue. The reason that we in Florida have less fresh fish markets has little to do with the net ban passed in 94, which was a wise decision, but it might have something to do with LESS FISH. Maybe you can speak to the advantage of using 8-12 mile long purse seine nets and how they not only net fish, but anything else that might be there as well. Or are you speaking of the turtle exclusion devices that were required?.

I can't tell you how many times I've been fishing in the gulf only to pull in a few hundred feet of monofilament net left over by some commercial fishing ship.

Since the time of that ban, fish numbers for a variety of fish species which were banned have risen to the point where you are now allowed to catch them.

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