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		<title>Guides, Save the Tarpon back off round-table discussion</title>
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			<title>Guest1 says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4695-guides-save-the-tarpon-back-off-round-table-discussion#comment-217</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Brooke Dixon, I am in favor of the PTTS, but I have absolutely no interest in making any money off of the fishery. I have fished Boca Grande many times and I have never disrespected or treated another angler unfairly. I use jigs and I have never killed a tarpon. I treat all other people with respect just like any other person should. I treat fish that i catch with the same amount of respect that I give to a person since they have given up their fight for my pleasure of recreational fishing. So saying all of us are Iike that is disrespectful to me and many other anglers. What facts are we covering up? The dead tarpon? That is a know fact that 5% of all tarpon caught anywhere in Florida will die due from the processes of the fight. So with over 80 tarpon being weighed a year, it is expected that some will not make it. Also, isn't the whole point of joining a tournament to win?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Guest1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:07:29 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tarpon Lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4695-guides-save-the-tarpon-back-off-round-table-discussion#comment-202</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Shave The Tarpon" covered a lot of ground with this one. I had to cover a lot of ground to cover "Shave The Tarpon's" ground. So here's to an open dialogue.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tarpon Lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:50:08 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tarpon Lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4695-guides-save-the-tarpon-back-off-round-table-discussion#comment-201</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Going to take a few of these to answer. First, it's "principles." And you are correct. Save The Tarpon has used freedom of expression in the form of fair comment to bring the behavior of the PTTS into the public spotlight. There is, of course, no need to manipulate what is clearly evident. The days of gaff, drag and kill are over, a wasteful relic existing only for profit and cable television ratings.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tarpon Lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:47:36 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tarpon Lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4695-guides-save-the-tarpon-back-off-round-table-discussion#comment-199</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Libelous? Did someone seat a jury somewhere that we haven't been told about? As libel requires a written utterance, please provide a copy of said agenda. The one that's "libelous." Again, don't quit the day job.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tarpon Lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:39:32 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tarpon Lady says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4695-guides-save-the-tarpon-back-off-round-table-discussion#comment-198</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If so, the sponsors and advertisers who have come to embrace Save The Tarpon's message must also be labeled as crazy and fanatical. So crazy and fanatical that they have decided they want nothing to do with the PTTS in the future.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tarpon Lady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:36:44 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tom Pellegrini says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have had the previledge to fulfill my dream of fishing for Tarpon in Boca Grande since 1999. I have fished with the same live bait guide every time. I have written many letters to the FWC and the Governor of Florida to voice against the jig fishing and especially the PTTS. All you have to do is to watch the manner of the way the competitors fish in these so called "tournaments" and it is quite obvious that the competitors have absolutely no reguard for the fishery and especially others fishing in the pass. I am appalled that not one of the many so called "officals" have not stepped up to the plate and done something to protect this great fishery. If nothing is done to mandate catch and release, then this great Tarpon fishery will definitely be lost.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tom Pellegrini</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:09:31 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Shave the Tarpon says:</title>
			<link>http://bocabeacon.com/news/featured-news/4695-guides-save-the-tarpon-back-off-round-table-discussion#comment-194</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Save the Tarpon: cyberterrorism or conservation? Cyberterrorism is defined as the intentional use of computer, networks, and public internet to cause destruction and harm for personal objectives. Over the past few months, a broad spectrum of varied attacks have been launched by the Save the Tarpon group against the PTTS and its supporters…all under the guise of conservation. The reality of their agenda has little to do with conservation, and more to do with the personal ideology of a few disturbed individuals. They reinterpret the truth and manipulate it to further their agenda. One of the main principals our great country was founded on was the right to freedom of expression for its citizens. Certainly Save the Tarpon has the right to voice their opinions, however, the exercising of these rights also carry certain responsibilitie s. Freedom of speech does not mean you can infringe upon the rights or falsely harm the reputation of others. Save the tarpon has stepped over the line on many occasions and their harassment of the PTTS and its supports is getting out of control. The people behind Save the Tarpon have registered 32 separate internet domain names relating to their objective. Some of these domains include the personal names people who have publicly spoken out against their organization as well as our very own Shave the Tarpon (www.shavethetarpon.com.) Save the Tarpon's libelous agenda is now extending beyond the confines of Boca Grande Pass and they are deliberately making claims, implied to be factual, that are solely intended to negatively impact any person or group that opposes them. Open dialog between parties is critical when trying to resolve a dispute. However, it has become painfully obvious that Save the Tarpon has no desire to discuss the issues or work towards any positive goals. I hope that their supporters understand the extent of their fanaticism. There's a whole lot of crazy going on over there.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Shave the Tarpon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:54:11 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Brooke Dixon says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greg, you are exactly right about one thing in your comment. All that those who are in favor of the PTTS, are concerned about, is nothing more than "making money off the fishery". You called that as it TRULY is! It is clearly NOT about the fishery itself, to any of them. Not only is the "way" they choose to fish unethical, so is their attitudes, the way they treat other anglers when they are out there, the way they treat other human beings much less the actual fish they are killing for nothing more than the almighty dollar and TV ratings. The anglers in this tournament care NOTHING about anything but winning. Including how poorly they are treating the fish that they are fishing for. The PTTS may like people to believe that they have conservation efforts in place, but after seeing with my own eyes how hard they tried to cover up from people who wanted to take pictures of the fish that died, it shows how many lies are starting to surface. What did they have to hide? What are they going to do, if allowed to continue in such a way, that the pressure on the fishery causes the numbers to decline and fish move out of the Pass and they can't make money off of them? I think that the BGFGA and STT groups made VERY valid points as to why they felt they should back away from the discussion. Especially that it was not open to the public. I suppose by keeping the talks behind closed doors, the PTTS and their supporters could have continued to cover up the truth and spin what the facts really are in their favor as they have consistently done. Change is almost always a good thing. It helps us grow and become better. Even Mark Futch, who you pointed out in your comment, knows now that jigging is not the ethical way to fish for these fish and changed his ways. I commend him for having open eyes and CHANGING his ways and trying to actually help the fishery. I hope Save the Tarpon opens MANY more people's eyes and that the PTTS is ended or made to change it's ways.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Brooke Dixon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:29:20 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Greg Whaley says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I would really have liked to see this meeting come about,but I'm not surprised that Save The Tarpon & the BGFGA decided that they had nothing to gain by attending this forum.I have followed this exchange about jigging versus live baiting for it seems like an eternity and it never gets resolved. The BGFGA and the STT are essentially one and the same and have already pretty well exhausted their legal avenues at attempting to get everyone but themselves out of the pass although they do have an appeal pending,again,w hich also will in all likelihood end the same as the others, so now they want to go the emotional route in lieu of scientific fact and cry conservation when there is absolutely no evidence that what they are proclaiming is even the least bit based on fact. A little research brings to light that at least one of the members(Mark Futch) of these organizations played a large role in bringing jigging to the pass in the first place and have participated and won PTTS type tournaments. I have tried to figure out exactly what their agenda is but it seems to be a fluid thing that changes from day to day. I was told by Tom McLaughlin that it wasn't about jigging, that it was all about the PTTS,& yet even in your article its about getting jigging out of the pass.I hear them trying to say that jiggers are killing off so many tarpon (w/a kill tag) yet the "traditional" tarpon fishermen and guides have killed hundreds of thousands of tarpon for nothing more than photo ops and garden fertilizer,and no one can truly believe that the "traditional"method of fishing for tarpon is not causing mortalities.If the tarpon truly need saving & they truly believe they are the stewards to do so, why are they still fishing for them & why aren't they calling for a total ban on fishing for them?Their whole stance on the silver king smells a little fishy and smells more of sour grapes over somebody making money off the fishery much as they did in the past.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Greg Whaley</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:47:57 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Gary Colecchio says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That's too bad. Good work to the Beacon for trying to work towards a solution.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gary Colecchio</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:38:59 --500</pubDate>
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