Senator Roger Wicker issued the following statement.
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today released the following statement in response to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) final ruling on the annual catch limits for red snapper that will cut Mississippi’s red snapper season by 60 percent next year.
“When I met with NOAA Administrator Spinrad in September 2021, he told me their calibration system was broken and could not pass peer review. He made a commitment to me that day to fix it,” Wicker said. “NOAA’s final rule includes the exact calibration that Mr. Spinrad agreed was flawed. For a so-called science agency, this rule is an embarrassment and exemplifies how the bureaucracy of this Administration fails the American people, and in particular those of the state of Mississippi.”
NOAA’s flawed rule is intended to prevent overfishing by modifying each state’s annual catch limits (ACLs) for red snapper. This new formula will require calibrating Mississippi’s high quality ‘Tails n’ Scales’ data, which records accurate information for more than 95% of Mississippi’s annual recreational red snapper catch, to the low-quality Federal Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) data.
The new calibration required by the rule will reduce Mississippi’s red snapper quota by 60 percent in 2023, meaning private anglers could reach their yearly quota in as little as three weeks. The ruling is based on outdated data from 2017 and 2018, despite Congress appropriating $2 million to NOAA to investigate and improve calibration methods.
Click here to read Wicker’s statement on the proposed rule in July.
Click here to read Wicker’s public comment to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Kingfish note: The rule is much easier to read at this link than what is published in the Federal Register.
18 comments:
GET the GOVT out of our lives!!
Between the trash water flowing from the MS and the trash oil spills disrupting fish populations, the gulf coast is in a fragile state.
Fish for eatin' not for a livin'
@ 11:52 it is very easy to get the govt out of your life if you want to. Here's how:
Don't call 911 if you have an emergency.
Don't call police or fire if you need help.
Don't use government streets or highways to travel. Hope you have a jet pack.
Don't flush your toilet. Your are responsible for your own poop.
Don't expect govt to pay for grandma's nursing home care - bring her to your house.
Don't cheer for or attend games/events at your favorite public university. Bunch of damn government sponsored activities.
Problem with neighbors? Solve it the old fashioned way. May the best man prevail.
If those damn Russians decide to invade, welcome them with open arms. We all know that they only have our best interests at heart.
Best wishes and good luck!
Please tell us about all the times you have voted to cut NOAA's budget, Senator.
Frankly I'm not sure who I trust less. The Biden regime or Roger Wicker.
The Mississippi sound is in bad shape with the river being diverted into it for a couple of years. All the oyster reefs are dead and the inshore spec fishing is terrible. But, the snapper reductions/limits have made the snapper populations offshore explode. This is pure virtue signaling and politics. Any offshore snapper fisherman will tell you they can catch a limit in no time and the population has exploded.
Someone needs to bring attention to this. NOAA has ruined the near shore reef fishing opportunities for the recreational fishermen based on BS numbers. There are more red snapper in the gulf right now than ever. This is commercial fishermen lobbying to push the recreational fishermen out of their moneypot. It's the commercial guys overfishing but they want to punish the weekend recreational guys. NOAA is also cool with the Pogie boats ignoring the boundaries put in place for them being too close to land and are leaving a literal trail of bycatch of thousands of dead redfish and speckled trout. No one wants to challenge the commercial fishermen because they have the lobby money.
I thought this would be nasty comments from Wicker that he was unable to get his favorite Red Snapper, with crab sauce dish at his favorite Wash DC eating establishment.
Oh Well.
For those lucky enough to fish during the first three weeks of a short Snapper season this next year:
Red Snapper with Shrimp and Crab Au Gratin
Shrimp and Crab Au Gratin
Ingredients:
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 2 Tablespoons flour
- 6 Tablespoons heavy cream
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- As required water to adjust sauce
- 3 Tablespoons egg, well beaten
- Small splash Dry White Wine, or sherry
- 1/4 tsp salt - to taste
- 1 Pinch black pepper
- 3 teaspoons Paprika
- 1 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 1/2 Tablespoon Parmesan Cheese
- 1/2 pound lump white crab meat
- 17 Medium/small (48 count) shrimp
Directions:
Make a bechamel sauce of butter, flour, milk, black pepper, and chicken bouillon, then adjust thickness with water. Place sauce in 290-degree oven for 20 minutes, until texture of the bechamel is velvety.
Remove from oven and add parmesan cheese and egg. Stir well until smooth and creamy. Add wine, or sherry, taste for seasoning and add salt, and cayenne pepper and continue stirring, until smooth. Add shrimp and crab meat,
Place in preheated oven and hold at 200 for 15-20 minutes until shrimp are done and sauce is hot.
Red Snapper:
Ingredients
- 1 pound fillet, with skin
- Salt
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
Directions:
Cut snapper into 2 fillets and score the skin side slightly. Salt lightly and hold for 15 minutes, then pat both sides dry with a paper towel. Season both sides with a 3:1 blend of Paprika and Cayenne Pepper and a little salt.
Heat olive oil in a high temperature proof (non-Teflon) sauté pan until just before it smokes.
Place fillets in pan, skin side down, moving the pan as the fillets are added to keep them from sticking and sear for 3-5 minutes, until the edges show browning. Then gently turn fillets (using a spatula and your hands to control the fillet) and cook the flesh side for 1-2 minutes. Remove to serving plate.
Plate the fillet, skin side down and cover with Shrimp and Crab au Gratin. Serve with vinaigrette seasoned salad.
Note: Alternate method - Remove the fillet and place (flesh side down) in a buttered oven proof (single serving) casserole that has been lightly dusted with Paprika and Cayenne. Add Shrimp and Crab au Gratin over the fillet and cook for 15 – 20 minutes in a 350-degree oven until the top of the au Gratin has browned slightly. Turn onto a plate to serve.
I like to post cynical comments about how many experts we have on JJ on every imaginable subject but damn, y’all really do sound like you know something about redfish.
A single Chicom processing ship, and its armada of trawlers, could end that Red Snapper surplus in about a week!
3:03, I was the poster at 1:15. This has been an issue for a long time. A lot of JJ posters spend a lot of time south of I-10. I know I do.
As usual, Roger right on top of the most important issues facing the country.
@1:15 Hammer, meet nail. Summed up accurately. Jackson Co is the only county n MS where pogy boats can come close to shore.
Hmmm...seems we used to have a Senator from that area.. also an airport named after him. If you observe the carnage and video it the Dept of Marine Resources will tell you to move along! Google Omega Protein. {pogey boat people}. They've been run off the east coast but welcomed with open arms n MS...raping and pillaging the Gulf coast. MS has the shortest red snapper season of any of the neighboring states! Things that make you go hmmmm. Follow the money!
Way too much cayenne.
This is another Roger Wicker red herring. He's trolling for votes, too.
When seconds count....Wicker is just minutes away! You have to get out in front Senator!
@December 2, 2022 at 12:55 PM has nailed it. IF Wicker really gave a shit, he could get things changed. But he doesn't because ultimately it's not going to cost him votes and the money is on the commercial side.
It is obvious to me from following MS politics for 35+ years more closely than I did prior to that that time that Wicker is a puppet with no real backbone. I have had close relatives involved in these Washington inner circles as staff and even higher up, and the tune has been the same since the beginning with Wicker. He was perhaps best in his musical singing "pick a little pocket". That may have been his true calling.
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