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Let Your Voice Be Heard!

The current federal fisheries law – the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) – is broken and in need of immediate repair. Arbitrary and non-scientific provisions coupled with unrealistically rigid restrictions are keeping all fishermen off the water.

Through strict enforcement of the provisions contained within MSA, and the rapidly expanding denial of public access to rebuilt and rebuilding fisheries, it has become extremely clear to the majority of anglers, fishing organizations and the fishing industry that the federal fisheries law must be fixed.

The good news is that conservation, access and rebuilding can all be achieved with minor changes to the current law.

What can you do?

Only by amending the Magnuson Stevens Act can both our fisheries and our fishing communities and businesses rebuild and thrive. Sustainability of both the fish AND the fishermen should be our goal]]> no_email@example.com (Capt_Keith) http://www.virginia-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=67#67 http://www.virginia-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=65#65
The resort area of Myrtle Beach is most widely know for its beautiful beaches, friendly southern hospitality, tourist attractions, shopping and Golf, but its also located in a prime fishing location.. If you are looking to get away from day of golf or the lights and attractions of the Grand Strand, then come experience the best of what the South Carolina Lowcountry has to offer with Feedin Frenzy Charter, North Myrtle Beach Fishing Charters.



Nearshore Fishing options are plentiful in the Myrtle Beach area. King Mackerel, Spanish Mackerel, Spade Fish are very abundant in the near coastal waters leaving from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Holden Beach, North Carolina. Inshore Species like Redfish, Trout and Flounder are available year round and Kids Shark Fishing Trips are also available for the more family oriented trips.



If you like Dolphins, Alligators, Bald Eagles, Ospreys and other wildlife, we also offer Waterway Tours and Sunset Cruise on the ICW that leave from Cricket Cove Marina in Little River, South Carolina



Please use the Reports section to help plan your next fishing charter. Although Fishing along the South Carolina Coast is great year around, there are certain times of the year that favor different species and types of fishing.



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Team Instigator (consisting of Capt. Keith Logan of Feedin Frenzy Charters out North Myrtle Beach, SC; Scott Smith of Charlotte, NC; and, Ryan Bright, of Dallas, TX) won the 2011 Fall Brawl King Classic out of the Ocean Isle Fishing Center with a 35.50 pound King Mackerel. The winning fish was caught on Sunday, in 102 feet of water on a Pink 1 oz. Pirate Plug from South Chatham Tackle, baited with a dead cigar minnow.



With Capt. Keith at the helm, Team Instigator headed out of Little River Inlet at 6:30am looking of bait on the beach. The plan was to look for bait until 7:30am, and fish the Myrtle Beach Rocks. If bait could not be found, we would run offshore to area that Capt. Keith had deep sea charter fished all year long and had caught big Kings on dead bait. At 7:30am, we had not been able to locate any bait and headed offshore in 3 to 4 feet waves running 28 to 30 knots in Yamaha powered Regulator 26. Wow, what a great ride the Regulator is! At 9:10am, we put lines in the water with Pirate Plugs baited with cigar minnows and Barefoot Chin weights with ballyhoo. As we started to troll, the short line in the prop wash, with the Barefoot Chin Weight Boone Head and ballyhoo, went off! Then, a King hit the long line that had a green Pirate Plug with a cigar minnow. The King was about 12 pounds, but was eaten by a barracuda at the boat. We got the lines back out and it was on again. A king hit the short line in the prop wash on the Barefoot Chin Weight and ballyhoo. The King was around 15 pounds and also got bit in half by a barracuda at the boat. Before we get that line back out, we were hooked up with two more Kings on pirate plugs and chain weight. We get them to the boat and they were around 10 to 15 pounds. We get a few lines back out and a bone head hits and tangles up the other lines that are out. We get the lines back in boat and only had one line that was not tangled up. It was a pink Pirate Plug, so we bait it up with a cigar minnow and put it out. We sped up to 3 knots and started to untangle the lines when it went off, smoking the line off the reel! Ryan got the rod and was moving to the front of the boat as I was turning the boat toward the King. The King turned, came toward the boat, and across the bow at full speed, taking all the line that Ryan had gained as it ran offshore. I knew then he, the King, had some size to him. We kept trying to get close to King, but he would take off. Finally, we saw him an eight foot wave at eye level as the King came back across the bow of the boat. I told Scott to come and get the helm and I would gaff him when he came back by the boat. When we saw the King again, he was on his side about ten feet from the boat. Ryan worked the King to about 6 feet away and Capt. Keith gaffed the King in the back by his head. A perfect shot, so the King would not bleed out. Capt. Keith put the king in the fish box and said, “Boys, he is around 35 to 36 lbs!!! He will place in the top three for sure!!! Let’s cover him with ice and pack everything up and head to the hill.” From the time we hooked up and put the big King in the boat, it was a 40 minute time frame. The seas were 5 to 6 feet with some 8 footers mixed in. We could only make 15 to 20 knots on the way back to Little River Inlet and made it back to the inlet around 1:15pm. From there, we traveled the ICW to the Ocean Isle Fishing Center to weigh the fish in around 2:00pm. The King weighed 35.50 pounds and was in the lead for first place…so, we stayed around for about 45 minutes to see if anyone else was going to weight in early too.



We headed back to Cricket Cove Marina in Little River, where Capt. Keith runs Feedin Frenzy North Myrtle Beach Fishing Charters, to dock and wash the boat. Then, we drove to Ocean Isle Fishing Center to watch the rest of the weight in. It was now about 4:15pm. When all was said and done, it was 5:00pm, and Team Instigator’s 35.50 King was still in first place!
Capt. Keith Logan also won the Jolly Mon out of the Ocean Isle Fishing Center in 2008, with a 36.65 lbs king mackerel on ballyhoo with secret lure that Capt. Keith and his dad, Cecil, used back in the eighties and nineties to win and place in king tournament.

Capt. Keith told Capt. Bob from South Chatham Tackle back in January that one day he would win a king tournament with a pirate plug. On charters in the summer, and when bait is hard to find, Capt. Keith uses Pirate Plugs and Barefoot Chin Weights with cigar minnows and ballyhoo to produce King Mackerels for his customer while other captains and boats are still looking for bait. Capt. Keith has caught a lot of Kings this year over 25 pounds while fishing with Pirate Plugs and Barefoot Chin Weight with dead bait. He has the photos to prove it, too.



Capt. Keith still said you have to match the hatch, though. Use live bait when the bait is thick on the beach, and use pogies and mullet when fishing inshore. It still does not hurt to pull a Pirate Plug or Barefoot Chin Weight in your speared, too. Sometimes, the different bait will stand out and get hit before the live bait does!

Scott Smith is the grandson of Arthur Smith, one of the founders of the King Mackerel Tournaments in 1977 and a country musician of the regionally televised Arthur Smith Show from the early 1950’s. Mr. Smith, his son Clay Smith, and Pat Bellamy, began the Arthur Smith King Mackerel Tournament in Myrtle Beach. They brought awareness to the state of Little River Inlet and became a driving force in getting the jetty built. The Arthur Smith tournaments expanded to include a king, dolphin and wahoo event in south Florida and a bluefish event in the northeast. The Smith’s brought in auto manufacturers and other non-boating or fishing sponsors and showed tournaments could be run as a business. They had companies like Delco batteries, Stren fishing line, and a bunch of others. They were really the first to bring a bunch of people together and market the event on a large scale.

In 1986 the Arthur Smith King Mackerel Tournament was the biggest and richest fishing contest in the world. It was held recently along a 70-mile stretch of the South Carolina coast and featured 1,244 boats carrying 6,212 ardent anglers competing for $540,000 in prizes.

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The special debuts Monday at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Fox Business Network.



Fox Business Network spent the past two months visiting these coastal areas, talking to local fishermen, and discussing with local, state, and national leaders about what the future holds for fishing.



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Gloucester, MA]]> no_email@example.com (Capt_Keith) http://www.virginia-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=61#61 http://www.virginia-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=59#59 PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Coast Guard crew from Station Portsmouth, good Samaritan and local agencies responded to a boat collision that resulted in a death and injury near Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Tuesday.

At approximately 1 p.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads received a report of the collision between a 15-foot pleasure boat with two people aboard and the approximately 40-foot fishing vessel, Just One More.

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The boater who crews performed CPR on died. The second boater from aboard the pleasure boat was transported to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

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The Jones language was included in HR 1473 which passed the House and the Senate. Was singed by the president Friday after noon... That’s done for now..

What you will be seeing now in the news is the House passing HR 1, which is the Republican budget plan for 2012. We still need to stay on our Congressmen and Senators to keep Catch Shares out of the 2012 budget too...

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by Dan Bacher

Washington, DC – In a big victory for commercial and recreational fishermen on the Atlantic coast, the U.S. Congress on April 14 voted to defund the “catch shares” program, a controversial and wasteful fisheries management fiasco.

Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, said the program has been “blocking access to fish for thousands of smaller scale fishermen, destroying their livelihoods and our coastal and fishing communities.”

The widely-contested “catch shares” program on the East and West Coasts, a pet project of Dr. Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator, serves to privatize public trust resources by concentrating ocean fisheries in a few corporate hands.

This amendment, offered by Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina, is part of the FY2011 budget that President Barack Obama signed into law on April 15.

“Unfortunately, this unfair program, known as catch shares, has already begun consolidating the fishing industry on every coast,” said Hauter. “It is shocking that, while the thousands lost their jobs in the worst recession in decades and the nation debated spending priorities, our government wasted millions to hand our fisheries over to mostly larger-scale, often corporate, industrialized fishing operations.”

“It is an outrage that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – the federal agency tasked with conserving and managing our living marine resources – requested a whopping additional $36 million to fund programs that would further industrialize our seafood and put even more fishermen out of business,” said Hauter.

She added, “It is our hope that Congress will continue along this sensible path and commit to defunding catch shares in the future and not only in this budget. Our government should listen to the thousands of fishermen who are struggling to make ends meet or have already lost their jobs under this biased program and render it obsolete.”

Carolyn A. Kirk, Mayor of Gloucester, MA, also applauded the passage of the Jones amendment.

“As much as anything, a budget document is also a policy statement,” said Kirk. “The clear message in the passage of the Jones Amendment is that the US House of Representatives, US Senate, and President have registered their disagreement with catch shares as a national policy.”

Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC), stated, “This is a shot in the arm for fishermen and a shot across the bow of the National Marine Fisheries Service. The last thing our government should be doing in these economic times is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to expand programs that will put even more Americans out of work. NMFS would be wise to take heed of the opposition of fishermen, the public and the Congress to their catch shares agenda; we’re not going away.”

Supporters of the amendment include the Recreational Fishing Alliance, American Sportfishing Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association, Saving Seafood, Southern Shrimp Alliance, Commercial Fishermen of America, Southeast Fisheries Association, Grand Strand Fishing Alliance, North Carolina Fisheries Association, Garden State Seafood Association, Florida Keys Fishermen’s Association, Long Island (NY) Fishermen’s Association. and Food & Water Watch.

Jones’s amendment received bipartisan support from Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank, New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone, Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown, and New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer.

The catch shares program presents a threat not only to commercial fishermen, but the recreational fishing industry, according to Pallone.

“I have expressed considerable concern over the impact that catch shares may have on the recreational sector,” said Pallone, a strong opponent of GOP and Obama administration plans to expand offshore oil drilling on both coasts. “I believe our priority should be improving the science and management of fisheries and that promoting another management tool until those issues have been fixed will only continue to hurt our coastal communities.”

“Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) activists had spent the third week of February visiting the offices of federal legislators claiming erroneously to represent the interests of U.S. fishing communities while promoting their ‘Catch Share’ manifesto with Members of Congress in an effort to limit overall public access to coastal fisheries,” said Jim Donofrio, executive director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA).

Jane Lubchenco claims the catch shares program is designed to “better manage” fisheries (http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20091210_catchshare.html).

“From Florida to Alaska, catch share programs help fishing communities provide good jobs while rebuilding and sustaining healthy fisheries and ocean ecosystems,” said Dr. Lubchenco. “Although this is a national policy, our emphasis is on local consideration and design of catch shares that take into consideration commercial and recreational fishing interests.”

Both West and East Coast fishermen strongly disagree. On October 28, 2010, the Crab Boat Owner’s Association, Port Orford Ocean Resource Team and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations filed a lawsuit against the Department of Commerce to halt the catch shares plan on the West Coast (http://calitics.com/diary/12780/lawsuit-filed-against-privatization-of-public-trust-fisheries.) They claimed that the program will “consolidate much of the fishing fleet, privatize public fish resources, deny many fishing ports access to fish in adjacent waters and cause massive job losses.”

“We had no option left us,” said Larry Collins, a San Francisco fisherman and President of the Crab Boat Owners Association, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “If we didn’t act to stop this travesty, ownership of the resource will consolidate into the hands of a few operators in a few ports along the coast, leaving many coastal fishing communities, including our own Fisherman’s Wharf, with no access to our own local fish.”

The “catch shares” program is just one of several federal and state campaigns designed to privatize the ocean public trust resources. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, funded privately by the shadowy Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, imposed a network of so-called “marine protected areas” along the California Coast (http://www.fishsniffer.com/content/1016-marine-protected-areas-%96-paper-reserves.html).

Unfortunately, these marine protected areas created under the MLPA Initiative fail to protect the ocean from water pollution, oil spills and drilling, military testing, corporate aquaculture, habitat destruction and other human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering. The panels that oversaw the implementation of the MLPA process included a big oil lobbyist, real estate executive, marina developer and other corporate operatives with numerous conflicts of interest.

I am very glad that Food & Water Watch, a great consumer advocacy group, is working closely with fishermen on both the East and West Coasts to stop the privatization of the public trust through the “catch shares” program being pushed by NOAA and Environmental Defense.]]> no_email@example.com (Capt_Keith) http://www.virginia-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=57#57