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Page 5 Those were sorta magic like words back yonder in the 40s and 50s to young ‘unsand grown ups, too. Daddy, Ma, Billy and I would load up in that coup named the Captain, or after that old vehicle gave up the ghost, then in the Chevy, and off We would put from our little dirt street in Linden. Sometimes the trip would be nowhere special, but on other occasions we'd rush off down to the train depot when we heard the steam engine whistle, just to see who might be getting on or off that choo choo train. Seems like we used to have a heap of fues, and when we heard the siren sound down at the jail, Council vote sets April snapper season One casualty from the recent partial federal govemrrrent shut— :down surfaced last week when the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council met at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, Ala. Because of the shutdown, the Gulf Council was unable to [publish a notice in the Federal Register on a pending vote on Amendment 50, the state man- agement of red snapper. The Council voted to (2111 a special meeting for February to vote on the measure, but that effort was canceled because of logistics problems. . The Council will vote on Amendment 50 at the next reg- ular Council meeting scheduled the first week of April at Biloxi, Miss ‘ ‘ ” In the meantime, Alabama set its 2019 red snapper season, V 'which is operating under the final year of an Exempted Fishing Permit (EFF). The 2019 Alabama red snap- per fishing season for anglers fishing from a private vessel or jstate-licensed guide boat will be three-day weekends (Friday- .Sunday) fiorn June 1 through July . 28, 2019, including Thursday, July 4. Except for the opening weekend,chh begins .on a Saturday, weekends are defined as 12:01 am. Friday through 11:59 pm. Sunday. This does not apply to for-hire ,(charter) boats with federal reef ' Zfishing permits. Charter boats Swill operate under federal regu- §lations in 2019. Alabama Marine Resources §Division Director Scott Bannon gsaid a vote on Amendment 50 at gthe April meeting should pro :vide enough time to get the rules ichanged for the 2020 season". ' “We should we able to get it Daddy would ring up Solly, the Central telephone operator, to frnd out where the fire was, so we could join the spectators at that event. Itwasagoodthingtoride around on a Sunday afternoon, back when we boys were young, and not embarrassed to be seen riding around with our mama and daddy by the other kids. Specially nice on a hot afternoon with the windows rolled down on account of we didn't have air conditioners in the or the house for that matter. 'Course, you had to consid— er the cost of a trip, but at 19 cents a gallon for fuel, we could manage. Hey, never will done, but we don’t need any more delays,” Bannon said. Amendment 50 shifts red snapper management to the states and allots-each state a ‘ share of the red snapper quota. The preferred alternative will give Alabama a 26.49-pereent share, while Florida’s share is a ' little more than 44 percent. The 2018 and 2019 snapper seasons in the Gulf are operat- ing under an Exempted Fishing Pemrit (EFP) that allows the states to set the snapper seasons under the catch Last year, a 3 .78—percent share of the quota was left after the pie had been divvied up. NOAA Fisheries (National Marine Fisheries Service or NMFS) gave Florida . that 3 .78 percent last year. 3.78‘perc'erit Will be split between thoridata‘rrd Alabama in the preferred alternative for Amendnrent 50. “Ihe eastern Gulf is where most of the harvest of red snap per is occurring,” Bannon said. “Ihat is why we think that per— centage should be split.” Bannon said currently there are no plans to include for-hire (charter) boats in any of the state management plans. ’ Bannon expects Amendment 50 to pass in some form at the April meeting. ' “Right now, I’m confident we will have a state-managed season for 2020,” Bannon said. “Allocation was the biggest concern with the options avail- able.Ithinkwewillpassitatthe next nreeting." During the 2018 snapper sea- son, the first urrder the EFF, Alabama set an optimistic pri- vate season of 47 days, mostly on three-day weekends. However,areneWed enthusi- asm for snapper fishing and excellent weather conditions .1 OUT OF 10 file forget when a new service sta— tion with tire changing and everything opened up down the hill and 'cress the street from the Court House. I'm pretty sure Dewey Cochran had the grand opening right after the war, and I went, down there with Daddy in my over- alls. I was mighty disappoint- ed when I didn't get a job changing tires even if I was only six. I was always, and still am a big radio listener whether at home or in the automobile. There was a certain amount of my country music on those AM stations, and I was coun— try when country wasn't cool, but I still remember those 30 forced Marine Resources to shut down the season after 28 days. “We will again be evaluating the season as it goes along through Snapper Check,” Bannon said. “We have the option to‘add days if we feel it’s appropriate, based on the har- vest rate.” Of course, that harvest rate will likely be weather-depen— dent. "Ihe weather last year was almost ideal throughout the entire red snapper season, and I think that contributed to the increased harvest rates,” Bannon said. Plus, Alabama’s unparalleled artificial reef zone provides easy access to anglers who want to aeration of two red snapper witha of 16 inches. “In the Alabama reef zone, we feel we have a very healthy population of red snapper,” Bannon said. "They arerelative— 1y accessible, and the size of the fish caught has been larger over the last couple of years. That also lends to reaching our allo— cation of pounds earlier.” Dr. Bob Shipp, professor emeritus of Marine Sciences at the University of South Alabama, has been studying red snapper off the Alabama Gulf Coast for decades, and he’s happy to see that the excellent health of the red snapper stock is finally being recognized. NOAA Fisheries Southeast Regional Director Dr. Roy Crabtree acknowledged at the meeting in Orange Beach that the red snapper fishery is rebounding at a much faster rate than expected. “The recovery of red snapper has been very robust,” Crabtree said. “There’s no evidence that it's not going to continue. it’s a 'ELDERLYPERSONS AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE BEING: Abused, Neglected or Exploited If you suspect this is happening to someone you know, please report it to Adult Protective Services by contacting your local DHR office or calling the ADULT ABUSE HOTLlNE at 1-800-458—7214 There s no excuse for ELDER ABUSE HELP STOP THE ABUSE It: You see IT, (REPORT rr A—PS ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICE 14:1: 1-800—458—7214 ~ “Thls project was supported by Sub‘grant #16-VA-Vs«076 awarded by the Low Enforcement/Truffle Safety ' Dlvlslon ot ADECA and the us. Department of Justloo.” The oplnlons, flndlngs, and concluslons or recom- mendatlons expressed ln thls publlcatlonIprogmm/exhlbltlon are those of the author(s) and do not noose- sarlly reflect the vlews of the Department of Justice or grant-makan component." emanah otter DAYS GONE BYE...BY TOM Booos LETS GO FOR A RIDE rrrinute radio shows like Sky King, The Shadow, Sgt Preston of the Yukon, Dragnet, The Life of. Riley. Tin Pan Alley, and all such as that, whether riding around or sit— ting round the radio in the liv- ing room. To catch the begin- ning of a show you had to allow an extra minute or two on account of those radio tubes had to warm up before the first sound was emitted. We traveled up to Selma to see my grandma and 'nern a heap. Billy and I had to occu— py our time, so we‘d do stuff like counting Chevrolets and Fords. He'd take one, and I the other. Never much trouble identifying which was which remarkable success story.” Shipp applauded Crabtree’s confirmation that red snapper resiliency is far greater than NOAA scientists and their com- puter models predicted. “I was delighted to hear Roy say that,” Shipp said. “Roy has been aware that the recovery is a lot faster than the models pro jected.That’s good news. I drink everybody is on the same page now in terms of the status of the red snapper stocks. The species is very, very healthy. All the tes- timony we get from Texas all the way to the Keys is that snap— per stocks are really strong Earlier this year, the US. Congress passed the Modern Fish Act, which was lauded by the recreational fishing commu- HOwever, the effect cf the Modern Fish Act is not yet fully understood. "There are provisions in the Act for the National Acaderrries of Sciences to study the fisheries management plans,” Bannon said. “It also directs the Comptroller General to study the allocations, ensuring they are utilizing all the appropriate data that may be provided by the states and other entities. It’s really an outside look to make sure we’re using all the pertinent information to make manage- ment decisions. “There are some pretty tight timelines, so they’ll have to quickly develop plans to present to NOAA and the regional fish- eries management councils.” In other action by the Council last week, Amendments 41 and 42, which deal with headboats and charter boats, respectively, were postponed until electronic log book data becomes avail— able. Right now, the charter indus- try in Alabama will remain underfederal 'delines, which . brother, "Let‘s count cows! I'll Thursday February 14, 2019 back in those days. Another traveling game was counting cows on your side of the road. Many times I'd see a whole pasture full of the, critters, and I'd holler out to my baby at home. Figure out the shapes in the clouds. "Hey, you see that cloud that looks like a cow?" There I go again with the cattle thing, but I like those critters. I sat on my tractor in the pasture yesterday, and enjoyed watching my httle herd gather up around me just to saw howdy. (Or maybe hoping for a httle extra feed). Fact of the matter is life was slow enough to see a whole heap through the windows of those 1940 and early 50 auto- mobiles. One could do worse than take the time to gaze up from the humming highway, and figure out that a cloud hanging up there looked just like your Great Uncle Cedric. ' take this side." Sometimes you'd just have to guess at the number in a herd. Don't forget we were zooming down that two lane highway at near 'bout 50 miles an hour. If you didn't feel like work- ing yourself up in a lather with the car or cow game, you could just lean back in the back seat, or even lie down in the luggage place in the back window, and do what you sometimes did in the side yard is fine with Capt. Johnny Greene, who runs the Intirnidator out of Orange Beach Marina. “Last year, we fished about 50 days, and we may get about 60 days this year with the reduc- tion of the buffer because we stayed within our sub-quota for the past three years,” Greene said. “The buffer was reduced from 20 percent to about 10 per— cent. When you get 10 percent more, that is significant, espe— cially at that time of year (tourist season). “At the end of the day, it’s all about the people on the back of the boat who are really going to benefit from this. 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