Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
even northern lobsters tend to get chewy when broiled or baked. How come no one seems to just boil or steam spinys like we usually do with the northern ones?dubbwool:I don't know how you cooked them, I agree when they are broiled. Try slicing them thin across the tail and sauting, or cutting them a little thicker dip in a frying /beer batter and lightly frying .
biscuit7:So, I've got the one guy with 8 posts, all in this thread, and another guy with 1 post telling me that they know better than I, a Keys resident, do. Ok, that's fine. You clearly know absolutely no one that lobsters commercially.
What do you want to change exactly? Increased limits for recreational divers? Extend mini-season? Let recreational folk set and lobster on artificial structure? You say you support the current regulations, and yet, you'd like to protest the board that has created them?
Commercial guys taking off structure is illegal. There is nothing in the regs that makes it legal. It's up to FWC to find the stuff and nail the people taking from it. What's going to change about that?
As far as equal treatment? Why should you/we be treated equally? What is about recreational lobstering that makes it equal to commercial lobstering in any way? Aside from dealing with the same critter, it's 2 totally different endeavors. Recreational lobstering is of economic interest for precisely 9 days out of the year: mini-season and the first week of open season. Commercial lobstering is a part of the Keys economy year-round. What do you want to say to the guys that lost all their traps (made of wood, can't think what's more biodegradeable than that) during the hurricanes last year?
Rachel