[Coral-List] The SCUBA diving community supports Goliath Grouper protection

[David Kerstetter]

FYI, this idea was actually brought up at one of the Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel (HMS AP) meetings a few years ago, specifically by HMS researchers – including myself – that were seeing their electronic tag deployments (each tag ca. $3000) cut short by capture by recreational anglers or commercial fishers.  NOAA at the time said that they didn’t have any legal authority to require that those tagged fish be (re-)released, and the matter was dropped, albeit somewhat frustratingly by the scientists.  From what I remember, there just wasn’t a regulatory mechanism that the agency could invoke, since the fish was no longer in physical possession of the capturing vessel, in addition to the numerous enforcement questions that would arise for alleged retention of fish with easily-removed external tags.

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David W. Kerstetter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Halmos College of Natural Sciences & Oceanography
Nova Southeastern University 
8000 North Ocean Drive
Dania Beach, FL 33004 USA
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http://www.nova.edu/ocean/research/labs/kerstetter.html


On 8/12/17, 10:09 AM, "coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov on behalf of Matt Nolan" <coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov on behalf of mpnolan at lbl.gov> wrote:

    Is there a way to tag them en mass?
    
    How about a federal law that says there is no "take" for creatures
    individually identified as being involved in a scientific study.
    
    Personally I feel there should be some legal doctrine if they have
    been caught once they belong to
    the first catcher if the first catcher registers them in some fashion.
    People who want creatures to live should have the
     same flesh ownership rights available to them as people who want to kill them.
    
    Agencies could collect "live" fees instead of kill permit fees.
    They get those fees plus be able to collect huge fines from people who
    poached the tagged creatures.
    
    
    
    On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Sarah Frias-Torres
    <sfrias_torres at hotmail.com> wrote:
    > To Coral-Listers interested in Goliath Groupers...
    >
    >
    > .... the plot thickens.
    >
    >
    > Now, the recreational SCUBA diving community asks FWC to continue protection of Goliath Groupers in Florida.
    >
    >
    > Here are two letters sent to FWC
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    >
    > >From the President and CEO of the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA)
    >
    > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrouperluna.com%2F2017%2F08%2F10%2Fdema-supports-science-based-goliath-grouper-protection%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ckerstett%40nova.edu%7Cf7758bc372ea49bdea4608d4e18bca64%7C2c2b2d312e3e4df1b571fb37c042ff1b%7C0%7C0%7C636381437898076583&sdata=%2FhvEHaTr%2FAijDo73b1Sxg3L5eRdePQ%2FFP%2F5gHrgJb0A%3D&reserved=0
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    > and from a husband and wife team of long-time Florida SCUBA divers
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    > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrouperluna.com%2F2017%2F08%2F04%2Fscuba-divers-want-goliath-groupers-protected%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ckerstett%40nova.edu%7Cf7758bc372ea49bdea4608d4e18bca64%7C2c2b2d312e3e4df1b571fb37c042ff1b%7C0%7C0%7C636381437898076583&sdata=Z8i4ipTSlFa7qyiqX9%2BxyR0cM4CViaTYUjAOJ8Sna8Q%3D&reserved=0
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    > Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D.
    > Twitter: @GrouperDoc
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