Now Fish & Game is after Max Mayfield (NOAH)

[SoCalDem]

Found this article by accidnet. remember how upset Max was, and how he was "forced" to retire?
Now he's being hassled over a fish..:eyes:




Catch and Release, immediately!
February 28, 2007 - 2:46 AM UTC
http://www.thestormtrack.com/2007/02/catch_and_release_immediately.php
From The St. Petersburg Times:

ST. PETERSBURG -- Max Mayfield, the former director of the National Hurricane Center, is under investigation by his former employer for possibly violating fishing laws.

Mayfield caught a 200-pound Goliath grouper while fishing with friends in the Gulf of Mexico a few days after his retirement Jan.1. The boat captain and crew slid the grouper into the boat through a door in the back, unhooked it, snapped a few celebratory photos and slid it back into the water. It swam away.

Such photographs are common fare in fishing magazines, but since Goliath is a protected species, bringing one into the boat is illegal, even if just for a few minutes. Doing so can damage a protective slime that covers the fish.

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[MadHound]

1. Well, it is a protected species

And catch and release doesn't always mean that the fish will live. Many of those hook wounds can fester and lead to death. Losing the protective slime on a fish isn't a good idea either. Just because it's Mayfield doesn't mean that he was right on this one:shrug:

Frankly I've been turned off to fishing over the past couple of decades. I'm not going to do catch and release, I think it's a cruel practice. And so I'm stuck with eating what I catch, and there are very few fishing spots in the state that I trust the water and lack of contaminants in it to go ahead and eat the fish. All of them are far from where I live, thus no fishing for me.

Now that I've got land with a pond on it, I might start stocking it, we'll see.

[SoCalDem]

2. The fact that one of his former co-workers ratted him out was what struck me. n/t

People who do not fish regualrly, and catch an oddity like that thing, would certainly take a pic and then release it.. I believe they did not know what they had caught.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Protective slime? oh, my imagination is running away with me.

I have visions of the Goliath in the White House and the protective slime that covers for him.

[SoCalDem]

4. Sounds like a job for SwampRat

:rofl: