Wahoome
09-17-2006, 12:12 PM
And thats just to start. We hope to have much higher reef densities as the program gains momentum. The good news is you could be fishing the Texas Great Barrier Reef as early as next summer! Here's the plan http://www.texasgreatbarrierreef.com/ . Although we plan to use different reefing materials depending on the location Tetrahedron (http://www.reefmaker.com/products.cfm) artificial reefs alone have been proven scientifically in Alabama to be able PRODUCE, not just hold, 500lbs of Red Snapper per year. Just think, after Phase One of the Texas Great Barrier Reef Project you could head South out of the Galveston Jetties or East from Freeport for 8 miles and enter a "mine field" of thriving artificial reef structures. Each reef capable of holding Snapper and the rest of the food chain above and below them. You, of course, are at the top of that food chain. If you turn Southwest and follow the coast you won't be able to avoid running over a reef. All the usual suspects will be there waiting...Lings, Kings, Black Tips, Tarpon, Reds, and even Trout. What would this mean to charter businesses? What impact could this have on coastal economies? What would this mean for our grandchildren?
This is not a pipe dream. It's on the verge of becoming a reality but, we need your help! Are you a member of the Recreational Fishing Alliance? https://www.soundst.com/RFA/Join_Form.htm Are you sponsoring our fundraiser tournament on Oct. 5th? Are you a golfer or can you just attend the banquet afterwords? http://www.rfagolfofmexico.golfreg.com/ We are going to use the proceeds to stay in the faces of fisheries managers, to lobby those who hold the purse strings to grant monies, to argue with those who would side with commercial interests to your detriment, and to continue to fight for this project.
If we're awarded the funding we seek, these reefs could be deployed next spring! Anyone who's left a rope or water hose hanging off the dock knows how long marine encrustation takes....days to weeks. Artificial reefs have been proven to hold and produce fish in as little as 2 months. You could literally be fishing these reefs next summer. Please don't just sit there and read this and then blow it off. Especially if your going to go out and fish this reef (and you know you will). It takes just a minute to join the RFA. While you're on a roll go ahead and sponsor the tournament or at least plan to attend the banquette afterwords. I promise it will be a lot of fun. It will be a "Who's Who" of the Texas recreational fishing community. Charter captains up and down the coast are donating trips to be auctioned and given away. All indications are favorable for the TGBR at the moment but, we don't want to leave anything to chance. We're not going to sit around and play the Red Snapper blame game or suggest unworkable solutions that would eliminate valuable industries or put people out of work. The TGBR has no downside and no natural enemies except inaction! With your help we can win and make this a reality.
Remember the story of the ants and the grasshopper? Don't be the grasshopper who sits around and tries to reap the benefits after the work is done. Help us build a future for recreational fishing in Texas . Did you know that thousands of oil rigs are schedule to be removed from Texas waters over the next 10 years? Did you know there are fisheries managers who want to close recreational fishing for Red Snapper for years and fishing in certain areas for good? Who is fighting for your access to this resource? The RFA.
For speafishers, like me, there's another aspect of this. We're going to petition the GLO and the TPWD for "private" reefing areas farther off the coast. We're also going to streamline the approval process for artificial reefs. So there's something in this for everyone. Join the RFA and help out any way you can.
Best Regards,
Steve Morris
This is not a pipe dream. It's on the verge of becoming a reality but, we need your help! Are you a member of the Recreational Fishing Alliance? https://www.soundst.com/RFA/Join_Form.htm Are you sponsoring our fundraiser tournament on Oct. 5th? Are you a golfer or can you just attend the banquet afterwords? http://www.rfagolfofmexico.golfreg.com/ We are going to use the proceeds to stay in the faces of fisheries managers, to lobby those who hold the purse strings to grant monies, to argue with those who would side with commercial interests to your detriment, and to continue to fight for this project.
If we're awarded the funding we seek, these reefs could be deployed next spring! Anyone who's left a rope or water hose hanging off the dock knows how long marine encrustation takes....days to weeks. Artificial reefs have been proven to hold and produce fish in as little as 2 months. You could literally be fishing these reefs next summer. Please don't just sit there and read this and then blow it off. Especially if your going to go out and fish this reef (and you know you will). It takes just a minute to join the RFA. While you're on a roll go ahead and sponsor the tournament or at least plan to attend the banquette afterwords. I promise it will be a lot of fun. It will be a "Who's Who" of the Texas recreational fishing community. Charter captains up and down the coast are donating trips to be auctioned and given away. All indications are favorable for the TGBR at the moment but, we don't want to leave anything to chance. We're not going to sit around and play the Red Snapper blame game or suggest unworkable solutions that would eliminate valuable industries or put people out of work. The TGBR has no downside and no natural enemies except inaction! With your help we can win and make this a reality.
Remember the story of the ants and the grasshopper? Don't be the grasshopper who sits around and tries to reap the benefits after the work is done. Help us build a future for recreational fishing in Texas . Did you know that thousands of oil rigs are schedule to be removed from Texas waters over the next 10 years? Did you know there are fisheries managers who want to close recreational fishing for Red Snapper for years and fishing in certain areas for good? Who is fighting for your access to this resource? The RFA.
For speafishers, like me, there's another aspect of this. We're going to petition the GLO and the TPWD for "private" reefing areas farther off the coast. We're also going to streamline the approval process for artificial reefs. So there's something in this for everyone. Join the RFA and help out any way you can.
Best Regards,
Steve Morris