Posted by M. Grant on May 01, 2002 at 22:53:51:
In Reply to: Re: Sport Fishing posted by Mario Grant on May 01, 2002 at 22:40:08:
: : Thats right Brent!
: : Let them know, because it seems that everyone wants to bash Mario for his actions and no one has enough courage stand up and talk about the many blue marlins, which are the national fish of the bahamas, that have been slaughtered and thrown to waste! I hate to see people like Dr Andy S Leggett give a whole speech about the hammerhead shark and yet he doesn't realise or even have enough sense to recognise the thousands of marlins that are being slaughter each year as a prize in the Bahamas. I guess he won't do that, because you don't point fingers at youself.
: : People, especially Dr Andy S Leggett needs to recognise and understand that you don't verbal abuse others for the sake of another. I would like to say that he is totally wrong by all means for his rude unpresidented insults against mario and I personally think he owes mario an apology. Now lets end this debate about the hammerhead shark and if anyone thinks mario is stupid for his actions then all of your buddies who owns sportsfishing vessels are stupid.
: : Have a nice day Doctor...
: I kept quiet long enough, but I still don't have anything to say to Devon, Patrice and buddies from the dive shop, Andy Leggett, KKB, Scuba Dude, Conch Head, Ken Smith, and the others that looked at the whole situation from one side of the boat about the shark. Yes the shark was caught and shot, but there are plenty mouths on Briland who ate that one shark. I took about twenty pounds of it, and there were plenty other person that took a portion of the shark meat. About seven or eight years ago, the Billfish Tourament started here on Briland, that first year I remembered hundreds of pounds of marlin either was carried to the dump, or disposed back into the ocean, the only thing that was kept from the marlin was the tail, and the bill/sword of the fish. Somebody mention about the baracuda, I have about ten to fifteen pounds of it in my freezer. About four nights after the shark was caught, the locals that fish from the surrounding docks started to catch good size mutton-snapper again. If you'll don't know there an other hammerhead in the harbour about 14-15 feet long last seen on the northwestern end of Briland.
One more thing, I know that all of us ate tuna fish in the can. I remember watching either PBS, TLC, or the Learning Channel were they have a documentary about commercial tuna fishing world wide. There are thousands of sharks and dolphins that are caught up in either the nets, or longline fishing rigs. Have any of the fishing boat from Valentines dive or Jeff Foxx dive never killed a shark, or even a cuda before? Nobody bitched about the shark that was caught last summer by the ramp, or the one that was caught during the winter, I didn't hear didily d about those two.