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Obama closes oceans..

Steve

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in a tantrum.. he has ordered the oceans closed..

I know the press is one sided... but it is getting ridiculous the length this dictator has gone to with his heavy handed closures.. and they are not covering them...

Feds close Florida oceans: Florida Bay Charter owner says ‘they’re killing us'

“Just before the weekend,” “the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was "closed" due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown."

The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban. Of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.


As Captain TW – Thomas Wayne -- of Florida Bay Charter told Examiner Saturday, the closure is “killing” his business.

“This is what we call ‘Red October,” Wayne explained of the term coined 30 years ago, “because it’s the time when red fish move into the bay and fishermen want to come here and catch them.”

When it comes to yearly income, “Red October” for the charter fishing is like the Christmas shopping season for retail businesses.

“My phone starts ringing off the hook in the middle of September,” Wayne said, “and even more right now.”

Wayne said he usually receives so many calls to book charter fishing excursions on his boat that he books solid refers excess customers to other friends in the industry to fill their books.

But after the Obama administration announced the closing of Florida’s oceans, the bottom fell out of charter fishing’s “Red October” season.

“I have had 20 cancellations and turned down 10 other people,” because of the closing Wayne said.

“The problem with South Florida,” he explained with frustration, “we are completely surrounded by park waters.”

Everything we do is surrounded by Biscayne National Park, Everglades National Park, even all the way on the west coast. We can’t even get on the water. We’re done.

“We have one tiny little piece of water property called Barn Sound between Card Sound Bridge and the Two Fish Creek Bridge going down the stretch to the Florida Keys,” he explained.

I fished there this morning because I had to. It’s the only place I have. You can sit on Card Town Bridge and look across and see the other bridge on the other side of Barn Sound. If you put five boats on there, you’re crowded.

Wayne said he “got out of bed at 3:00 a.m. and hauled butt down there to be one of the first guys on the water” to do some personal fishing Saturday morning. But it was so crowded with “20 other boats,” he only caught a couple of fish.

I can’t take customers down there, because it’s over. We’re done.

Due to past success, Wayne said he just invested $20,000 in rebuilding a boat.

And now I’m just sitting here with bills coming out of my ears.


According to an anonymous Park Service ranger, quoted Thursday by The Washington Times:

We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.

it may be time to march on DC and show Obama how mad this country is with this crap he keeps pulling.
 
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