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Justin Crump and Kate Taylor join us today on The Fish Schtick. You know Justin from the epic, created-the-category Fish Bum movies. He’s also 2007 Slab of the Year winner on Moldy Chum. Kate is responsible for the good stuff you see at Rouge Angels – online at RougeAngels.net, the premier girl fly fishing blog on the net. The two of them will lead the Moldy Chum Field Trip to Baja later this summer. Recently, they’ve been lost in Idaho chasing double-digit trout, and that’s double-digit pounds, not inches, so we’ll have them start us off with a hot fishing report.
Brian / Moldy Chum News
Teeg / Recycled Fish News
Guest Intro / Interview
Brian – promo the Moldy Chum field trip
- Let’s hear about Idaho
- Crump, what are you working on post-AEG?
- Most epic memories from past year?
- Kate, tell us about Rouge Angels
- What are hot topics on the blog lately?
- Story behind Slab of the Year
- What’s going on in Baja
Conservation:
Talk about this Moffat system
FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA – A move to strengthen fishing and conservation laws in Mexico’s waters gained major support by all political parties late last week in a vote by members of the Congress of the Mexican State of Baja California Sur (BCS).
Backed by a socio-economic study from The Billfish Foundation, the BCS members voted unanimously to take a position of support for federal legislation to toughen commercial fishing laws through a bill recently introduced by Senators Luis Alberto Coppola Joffroy and Humberto Andrade Quezada.
The action among the members was remarkable in that it marks the first unification across political party lines to support this conservation effort that would protect its economically rich sport fisheries, especially in the Los Cabos region of the BCS.
The bill clearly eliminates the commercial market’s sale and the possibility of any bycatch exceptions for billfish, dorado, tarpon and roosterfish protected for sportfishing by existing 50 mile conservation zones.
To support their legislation Joffroy and Quezada used documents which cited results of The Billfish Foundation study released last fall revealed sportfishing tourism adds over $630 million dollars annually directly to the Baja economy.
The TBF study showed in 2007, 354,013 people, most all of them international visitors, fished in Los Cabos. While there they spent an estimated $633.6 million dollars for lodging, charter boats, food, transportation, tackle, fuel, and more. These expenditures started a series of positive cascading economic effects in the local economy which included the creation of 24,426 jobs, $245.5 U.S. million in local and federal tax revenues, and $1.125 U.S. billion in total economic activity.
Visitors who fish there provided an estimated 24.1 percent of the total Los Cabos economy the report disclosed.
The legislative action is particularly significant in light of the fact that the BCS Governor has not been supportive of strong conservation initiatives and the BCS Congress is dominated by members of the PRD party (Party of Democratic Revolution). Coppola and Andrade are in the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
“TBF is greatly encouraged by this demonstration of strong bipartisan support for these important billfish conservation efforts in Mexico,” said its Chairman John Brownlee, “and we are pleased that our research has demonstrated how good conservation and sportfishing opportunities can bring new wealth and sustainable job opportunities to all of Mexico’s coastal communities.”
Final Word:
National poetry month continues – Brian’s haiku
A TALL FISH TAIL
When Fishermen get together,
truth they always tell,
about the one that got away,
the one they kept as well.
They always saw the biggest fish
that ever lurked in weed.
It broke the line, bent the rod,
a trophy fish indeed.
But, like a one-armed fisherman,
it’s length he could not show.
He only saw the head of course,
the tail was far below.
Yet in mind’s eye this trophy fish,
is mounted on the wall,
It was the best catch of his life.
‘Tis not a Tale to Tall.
Don R. Wilkins
Contact Us:
Teeg Stouffer – http://www.recycledfish.org
Brian Bennett – http://www.moldychum.com
Michael Mauro – http://www.mauromedia.com
Justin Crump – http://www.rogueangels.net
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Justin Crump and Kate Taylor in 2007 Slab of the Year winner on Moldy Chum. I am also fond of fishing.
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