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Originally Posted by ALANRAYG2
Travis C, Thanks for the link. I was unaware of the ban. I did a little digging and found that CITES has determined that the fishery is in decline and not sustainable. I am assuming the waters in Tennessee are over harvested. I wonder how opening 5 more lakes will help the over harvesting in current lakes being netted? I'll bet the netters will buy more nets and fish every where. Then all of the lakes and rivers will be over fished.
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Another thing to consider on the "overharvesting" is not just opening more lakes. Part of the things looking to get passed is allowing someone to harvest without a license holder present on the boat.
" Make it legal for commercial fishing helpers to run gear without presence of commercial license holders."
bd said it best maybe here or on another forum, it would likely cause more "sub-contracting" out help to run nets in turn creating more people on the water.