OPINION BASED ON FACTS!
FLORIDA SPORTSMAN FORUM MARCH 2015:
"Persons are ineligible for membership on any committee or panel if that person has been convicted of a felony offense or is determined to have violated any federal or state marine regulation within the previous five years. IN ADDITION, PERSONS ARE INELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP ON ANY SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (SSC, SAP OR SEP) IF THAT PERSON DIRECTLY RECEIVES FUNDING FROM AN ASSOCIATION THAT LOBBIES THE COUNCIL ON FISHERY ISSUES"
At same time several people on the Gulf Of Mexico Fishery Management Councils' Scientific Committees, SAP and SEP WERE ALSO DIRECTLY RECEIVING FUNDING FROM AN ASSOCIATION THAT LOBBIED THE GULF OF MEXICO FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL. SINCE CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE GULF COUNCILS' SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES WERE IN FACT DIRECTLY RECEIVING FUNDING FROM ASSOCIATIONS THAT WERE LOBBYING THE GULF COUNCIL THAT WAS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF FEDERAL RULES. GULF COUNCIL OFFICIALS LOOKED THE OTHER WAY WITH A BLIND EYE TO THE CORRUPTION UNTIL THE GULF COUNCIL WAS BUSTED ON THE FLORIDA SPORTSMAN FORUM FOR SAID FEDERAL VIOLATIONS THE COUNCIL WAS IGNORING THE RULE VIOLATIONS AND LETTING THE CORRUPTION OF THE FEDERAL RULES GO ON AND ON. ONCE THE HARD EVIDENCE WAS POSTED ON THE FLORIDA SPORTSMAN FORUM THE WEBSITE PAGES ON THE GULF COUNCILS' WEBSITE SUSPICIOUSLY WERE IMMEDIATELY REMOVED. THOSE PAGES OF EVIDENCE POSTED ABOVE WERE QUICKLY REMOVED, BUT SINCE WE KNEW THE GULF COUNCIL WOULD HAVE THOSE INCRIMINATING AND EMBARRSASING WEBPAGES REMOVED WE SCREEN SHOTTED THOSE PAGES FOR EVIDENCE ANTICIPATING THAT THE GULF COUNCIL WOULD QUICKLY REMOVE THE INCRIMINATING WEBPAGES. THE GULF COUNCIL GOT CAUGHT!
AFTER SAID MEMBERS OF THE GULF COUNCIL SSC'S GOT CAUGHT THE MAJORITY OF THE SHILL SPECIAL INTERESTS' MEMBERS ON THE GULF COUNCIL DID MORE CORRUPTION WELL AFTER THE FACT BY VOTING AFTER THE ILLEGALITIES TO MAKE LEGAL WHAT WAS ILLEGAL. VOTING AFTER THE FACT TO MAKE SOMETHING LEGAL THAT WAS NOT LEGAL DOES NOT EXONERATE THE GUILTY MEMBERS WHO VIOLATED THE LAW WHEN IT WAS THE LAW. THIS STINKS. IT IS LIKE MAKING BANK ROBBERY LEGAL AFTER YOUR PAL ILLEGALLY ROBS THE BANK INSTEAD OF MAKING THE BANK ROBBER ACCOUNTABLE TO HIS VIOLATION THEY CHANGE THE LAW TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO BANK ROB. THIS SHOWS WHAT KIND OF SPECIAL INTEREST CHERRY PICKED BY THE RIGGED SYSTEM UNETHICAL THE MAJORITY OF GULF COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN BE.
Here is the story of the betrayal of the recreational fishermen by those named above with the facts to back it up:
Recently a Federal Appeals Court struck down the illegal warrantless search of a federally permitted recreational charter boat by the government’s illegal GPS tracking system. The Charter Fishermen's Association of which the President of the Florida Guides Association Dylan Hubbard is now on the Charter Fishermen's Association Board of Directors, Environmental Defense Fund, the Ocean Conservancy and the Florida Guides Association as well as others signed on the an Amicus Curiae brief supporting the government and Gulf Council’s illegal GPS warrantless search tracking scheme. The scheme is part of the reporting of fish caught by the Charter boats so the Gulf Council can get a catch history and then based on that catch history dole out IFQ’s or catch shares. Just like the IFQ gulf commercial fishery for Red Snapper and Grouper was designed to put the smaller commercial fishermen out of business and at the same time consolodate the fishery into a few Kingpins control. This is exactly what is happening with the scam to put the smaller charter boats out of business. All the while a few "connected" charter boat fishermen procure way more than their fair share of each gulf fishery. Their illegal GPS tracking scheme that was declared illegal by the Federal Appeals's Court was to help facilitate their scam consolidation of the federally permitted charter boat fleet for the benefit of the "connected".
Good honest Federally Permitted Charter Boat Captains sued the government to stop this illegal warrantless surveilance and won.
Let us start with the Charter Fishermen’s Association who was money founded and is money funded by the Environmental Fund (EDF). Remember the President of the Florida Guides Association Dylan Hubbard is now on the Charter Fishermen's Association Board of Directors. He has a few charter boats.
He railed against EDF and the Ocean Conservancy online then he suspiciously flip flopped to the be on the Board of Director's EDF founded and funded Charter Fishermen’s Association. The scheme is to whittle the not connected federally permitted charter boat fleet down by giving them so little catch shares that it is disproportionally not enough to stay in business which will consolodate the federally permitted charter boat fleet into the control of the charter boats that unethically procured catch shares for the "unconnected" federal permitted Charter Boat fleet that will put many smaller federally permitted charter boat businesses out of business. That is their plan.
When the government makes unjust fishery laws that is one thing, but when the government tries to come take your constitutional rights away like they and their minions tried to do that crosses the line and that will be shouted from the rooftops. If honest federally permitted charter boat captains had not stood up for the constitution and gotten that GPS tracking scheme illegality removed the Gulf Council and the Charter Fishermans's Association would be have been happy they got away with implementing an unconstitutional rule. The Appeals court sent them a stern message through their ruling and this will embolden and encourage others to file lawsuits when necessary to safeguard everyone's constitutional rights tying to be unconstitutionally taken from you.
