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			<title>Gary Colecchio says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-187</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ As I don't subscribe to any part of the PTTS tournament, I also don't subscribe to the STT tactics to abolish it and will not participate on either side of this highly emotional debate. I will not attempt to influence FWRI's research or FWC Division of Law Enforcement or the Commissioners to act on any rule that is not based in sound defensible science, in managing fisheries but instead seeks to manage those who participate in it by excluding either side from access. If your goal is to stop the gaffing, dragging and weighing part of the PTTS, simply eliminate allowing any possession of the fish. Shift your campaign to compel the FWC to eliminate the kill tag program. It has done its job in conserving the population. I don’t think that would meet with much resistance as it is no longer necessary or justifiable. I will gladly lend my voice to that effort.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gary Colecchio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:53:39 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>tarpon lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-186</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Then tell your pals at the PTTS to knock it off! Sign the petition! Write the FWC! Good lord, Colecchio, stand up for your beliefs!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tarpon lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:16:39 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Gary Colecchio says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-183</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I have always come down on the right side, of this issue. And that is no one, BGFGA, Boca Grande’s business community, ex PTTS participants, Joe Mercurio you or me have no right to demand of anyone to fish within the parameters established as "law" by a local guides association. I don't subscribe at all to any of the show's theatrics or fishandleing methods. I also don’t' subscribe to accusations of it being anything else but a TV show, especially as it being a device encouraging like behavior. The Anti-PTTS movement will not subside if Mercurio eliminates the weighing (which I'm not as sure as you he will not do) but will find something else to focus on until it is displaced entirely, which is the real and stated goal: "Save the tarpon of Boca Grande Pass now launched their website designed to attack the sponsors and owners of this unsportsmanlike tarpon fishing (PTTS) tournament"]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gary Colecchio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:22:01 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>tarpon lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-180</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I'm glad to see you agree that the PTTS "TV show," as you call it, would not be substantially impacted by adopting a catch and release format. It is also comforting to know you don't subscribe to weighing fish. The PTTS takes a different view. The PTTS argues that its TV show can't make it as a catch and release tournament and that it must and will continue weighing fish. Good to see you coming down on the right side of this issue.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tarpon lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:02:17 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Gary Colecchio says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-178</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I clearly realize that there is no difference between the businesses making money exploiting a fish. Whether they catch them or film someone catching them . In order for all to continue making money doing it, the fish needs to be available and it is everyone’s best interest that they are. There is no indication that it will not be by any legitimate scientific body. All the guides I’ve seen engaged in this fishery practice catch and release. Anyone who has watch the TV show sees that most of the fish are released boatside. Very few are gaffed, a practice which can be seen employed by many traditional guides on their websites, and weighed then released. That some animals do not survive , does not change the format from one of catch and release to something else. I do not subscribe to weighing the fish personally because it is no measure of fishing prowess. But to describe it as being “slaughter” is alarmist and just plain not true. I’m not involved in PTTS in any way, and don’t “mimic” them. Bonefish and Tarpon Trust’s stated goal is to establish tarpon as a federally protected species and to establish local critical habitat designations for them. The criteria they have used in the past to lobby the FWC for closure to recreational fishing (permit), is spawning aggregations. Boca Grande qualifies as such. Is this the future? I don’t know. As I’ve said, I really do not care if they succeed, Will you?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gary Colecchio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:12:59 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>tarpon lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-176</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ You fail to see the difference between a livelihood and a television show. Putting aside the jig debate because it's not relevant to what STS appears to be doing, charter guides are practicing catch and release. Thats what this is about. The PTTS practices gaff and drag. Thats what this is about. You insult everyone's intelligence when you mimic the PTTS red herring that doing away with gaff and drag will result in closing the fishery.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tarpon lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:53:59 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Gary Colecchio says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-172</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I have never met Mr. Ingman. I post on this subject as I have since BGFGA involved FWC in the jig debate (and which this is just the latest iteration of) out of my desire for unrestricted access by all recreational anglers, regardless of gear type and without any demands, interference or intimidation by any guides, their guides association, their families and friends , businesses or their new thinly veiled social media campaign in insisting that they follow their "rules" in the guise of “saving “ a species that no science has shown to need saving. A true conservation position would be to eliminate all tournament fishing in involving all for-hire charterboat operators and not single out just one. A true conservation position would be to identify Boca Grande Pass as a pre-spawn location critical to the health of the fishery and establish a marine protection area during that season to prevent all harassment of the fish from commercial exploitation on their migration. The concern for the health of a fish, the fish or all the fish is a charade. There is a concern, and that is for those who continue to exploit the fishery for their own material interest.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gary Colecchio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:06:44 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>tarpon lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-168</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It doesn't take much of a detective to understand you're now on Ingman's payroll. How much do you get per post?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tarpon lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:59:47 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Capt. Troy P. Sapp says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-160</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The latest data provided by FWRI led to some revisions to the 2012 PTTS rules. Though the data is not yet conclusive on the effects of the weighing process as far a survival rates the PTTS elected to adjust the 2012 format as a proactive measure to further reduce stress levels. Please remember the PTTS nor the tournament angler had any legal requirement to allow the weighed fish to be sampled by FWRI. It was volunteered. A new minimum line requirement of 50 lb test to reduce fight times. New boundaries set by markers which would prevent a fish from being qualified to weigh if at any time the fish crossed the boundary lines. This to shorten towing and handling time to the scale. No lifting of fish for photos after weigh in. A trained designated release team for revival after weigh in. This insures if a lengthy revival time is required the weighing team would not prematurely release a fish in an effort to return to fishing. Tarpon tags required to be submitted at the end of the tournament with associated paperwork. 1977, Millers tide tournaments are in full swing with basically the same format as the PTTS, with the exception of very few rules protecting the fish. It evolved into a regular series with a ladies event. As many as 50 boats and with the same thing going on today. Yep, 40 years of this style of tournament fishing and close to 20 years of the jig, or coon pop as some like to call it. Funny, without TV these very same events were widely accepted locally. They drew big crowds at Millers marina and all was well until some non local guys won the premier events. The Catch the King, The Chambers Worlds Richest. In short order this battle began then and continues to this day. Save the Tarpon from What??? Or for Who??]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capt. Troy P. Sapp</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:21 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Gary Colecchio says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4653-website-rallies-locals-to-be-heard#comment-158</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Part 1 It doesn’t take much of a detective to understand what is going on. Especially, if you have been engaged in this running gun battle between BGFGA and off island guides through all the allegations, accusations misinformation, disinformation, studies demanded , studies denounced, fisheries managers making rules to modify behavior without any science, those rules being challenged in court, as well as the overt threats of violence voiced at public hearings as I have over last 12 years. My solution is obvious and should merit support of this new conservation group who taken at their word is only concerned about the welfare of the fish: Stop tournaments in Boca Grande Pass. Stop the PTTS Stop the Chamber tournaments. Stop the BGFGA Tournaments. Stop all but the immediate release and revival of all recreationally caught fish regardless of fishing methods. Ban wire leaders ( I’ve seen them in dolphin carcasses at a pass cleanup ) Stop weighing fish. Stop the practice of setting the hook with the inboard boat motors. Stop the kill tag program.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gary Colecchio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:38:59 --500</pubDate>
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