Posted by Steve on October 29, 2002 at 22:26:46:
In Reply to: Re: Two DS's posted by scubaboy on October 29, 2002 at 11:53:00:
"As I said earlier I know you truly do not feel this way and you are just keeping the conversation going."
You would be wrong because I do feel this way. Check the archives, I was against the reserves and thought that through education and management of the resource we could turn things around. Passing the reserves will pacify the activist thus sweeping the problem under a rug. They failed in doing what needs to be done in that is a real ocean management plan. The reserves will be hammered and abused by divers and outside the reserves will be hammered and abused by the commercial and other fishing to further decimate the resource. That's how I feel.