[mudfish]

MD proposing closed season on cownose in Chesapeake from 7/1-12/31 this coming year in Chesapeake and has open comment section going on now until 11/10/16

http://dnr.maryland.gov/fisheries/Pages/regulations/changes.aspx#cownose

 

[garpwacker]

Thanks Mud, it won't let my post be viewed for some reason...

But need your help with all you guys that come down for the summer and shoot rays or want to shoot rays and get that species off your bucket list, and the MD Chesapeake area is also special with the opportunity to shoot snakeheads In the Potomac on the same trip, the state is taking open comments from the public and need everyone's help to try to keep this season open....

 

[Gillshot]

Comment sent. What a silly idea.

 

[eshaw]

Why are they entertaining this idea?

 

[garpwacker]

Why are they entertaining this idea?

It started last year when the tree hugger group Fish F€€L video taped Ray bowfishing at the Va stingray tourney, it went public and we became the poster child to further their cause. They believe fish are sentient beings and have emotion and feel pain, they are against all fishing, any fishing tournaments, trout stocking,catch and release etc,etc..... They started to petition the state with other public backing after getting the video tape out on news and social media of bowfisherman shooting and thumping rays. We have been doing it for years and is no shortage of rays, rays have no natural predators in the bay other than bowfishing,the Rays eat millions of pounds of shellfish every year and watermen hate them, they have no or very little food value but the anti's have been beating the drum hard and steady against us....

 

[THS Tim]

They should only let people that fish vote on this kind of legislation. See people voting on Wolf hunting that never seen a wolf and don't own land that wolves are on. If you don't like something than don't do it. Good luck I also want to have the opportunity to try bowfishing for those someday soon.

 

[Magnolia Outdoors Guy]

Email sent.

 

[casino69]

They are claiming a litter of ONE pup per female, per mating season. We all know that's not accurate. I've seen 4 or 5 get discharged.
Hopefully the watermen react. They are our biggest allies.

 

[rum3002576]

email sent

Thanks Mud, it won't let my post be viewed for some reason...

But need your help with all you guys that come down for the summer and shoot rays or want to shoot rays and get that species off your bucket list, and the MD Chesapeake area is also special with the opportunity to shoot snakeheads In the Potomac on the same trip, the state is taking open comments from the public and need everyone's help to try to keep this season open....

 

[Antarctica]

Copied from another forum I post to:

comments sent, also copied state senator.

Note DNR comments from the Capital Gazette this spring...

"Frankly, we do not have the data or evidence that the cownose ray is threatened," said DNR's spokesman, Stephen Schatz, in an emailed statement. "The situation is further complicated because they are migratory in nature. Any management action/plan would need to be coordinated across jurisdictional boundaries (coast-wide) to be effective."

The summary provided for public comment is ridiculous. It doesn't even state why this is up for public comment and potential change - just "based on feedback". What feedback? Whose? Scientific feedback? Emotional feedback?

Just another anti-fishing/hunting infringement.... What's next?

Take the time to write.

And I haven't even bow fished rays... but I want to. And I want my kids to...

Brent

 

[MallardSX2]

http://www.takepart.com/article/201...g-contests-threaten-wipe-out-cownose-stingray

 

[Fish Sticking]

Hopefully the baymen reacted to this, they are devastating the mussel and clam beds here in NJ.

 

[Kayakfish1]

So they say they only produce one pup, right after saying that when someone shoots a female that the pups (plural) just start falling out? Also that isn't a crossbow in the picture. To top it off they are scared that they're being fished to extinction but "there isn't a fishery for them" meaning that there's not enough being taken to make a difference and that's why there has never been anything done about it. These tree huggers need to spend more time worrying about where their organic gluten free vegetable chips are coming from and leave us bowfishermen alone

 

[mudfish]

So they say they only produce one pup, right after saying that when someone shoots a female that the pups (plural) just start falling out? Also that isn't a crossbow in the picture. To top it off they are scared that they're being fished to extinction but "there isn't a fishery for them" meaning that there's not enough being taken to make a difference and that's why there has never been anything done about it. These tree huggers need to spend more time worrying about where their organic gluten free vegetable chips are coming from and leave us bowfishermen alone

LOL who does not like us much already!
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[Kayakfish1]

Lol mud they hate bowfishing on nc angler lol I've been on there for years and every time someone posts about bowfishing they get grilled, especially if you mention gar

 

[MallardSX2]

Has anyone heard anything more on this?

 

[garpwacker]

Has anyone heard anything more on this?

If click on the link they continued comment period until 1/8/17 I think or somewhere into early January so you still have time to comment on this... Meant to bring it back to top but just heard was extended.