How can these folks continue to turn a blind eye to the commercial fisherman. Their jobs all depend on keeping the commercial fisherman in business. That is why they allow the commercial pressure to continue. They allow the fish stocks to become dangerously depleted, and then act by coming out with another plan that does nothing to limit commercial harvest at all.

Somewhere floating in the ocean, between three and two hundred miles of the coast, is a failed management plan. How will these people be remembered as the history books are written?

• We want to know how can you guys think that area closures without a reduction of commercial fishing pressure will do more harm than good.

• We want to know who among you are commercial fishermen, and wholesalers, and retailers of seafood.

• We want to know why there is such an emergency to reduce our fishing grounds without reducing the commercial fishing.

• We want to know why you let the fish get overharvested in the first place. Who takes the responsibility?

• We want you to keep an updated website, with all past and present documents available for view.

• We want to know how long it will take to get the Coast Guard to enforce the CFR 46-197 as it should be.

• We want to know how much longer you are going to let the trawlers erode the fisheries with horrific bycatch ratios.

• We want you to all answer these questions and to remember what is on your outdated website, "The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is headquartered in Charleston, S.C., and is responsible for the conservation and management of fish stocks from three to 200-miles off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and east Florida to Key West."

Council Chairman

Fulton Love
6817 Basin Road
Savannah, GA 31419
912/925-3616
e-mail: ofljr@bellsouth.net

Council Vice-Chairman

David M. Cupka

Designee for Dr. Paul Sandifer
Director
S.C. Dept. of Natuarl Res.
Marine Resources Division
P.O. Box 12559
Charleston, SC 29422-2559
843/762-5010 or 795-6350
e-mail: cupkad@mrd.dnr.state.sc.us

Bill Cole

Designee for Sam Hamilton
Regional Director
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
P.O. Box 972
Morehead City, NC 28557-0972
919/726-7021
e-mail: r4fr_mcnc@fws.gov

Anthony L. Iarocci

236 Guava Avenue
Grassy Key, FL 33050
305/743-7162

Dieter N. Busch

Director, Interstate Fisheries
Atlantic States MarineFisheries Comm.
1444 Eye Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/289-6400
e-mail: dbush@asmfc.org

Glenn H. Durden

2004 Chevy Place
Vidalia, GA 30474
912/537-7074
email: glennhd13@yahoo.com

Dr. John M. Dean

South Edisto Avenue
Columbia, SC 29205
803/777-0075
e-mail: jmdean@sc.edu

Jodie E Gay

105 Friendly Lane
Hampstead, NC 28443
910/270-3718
e-mail: oldsmokey@worldnet.att.net

No longer a member.

Joe Powers

Regional Administrator
National Marine Fisheries Service
S.E. Region
9721 Executive Center Dr., North
St. Petersburg, FL 33702
727/570-5301
e-mail: joseph.powers@noaa.gov

Edward B. LeMaster III

135 Ponte Vedra Blvd.
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
904/285-6017
e-mail: eblhcl@aol.com

Roy Williams

Designee forAllan Egbert
Executive Director
Florida Fish & Wildlife
Conservation Commission
2540 Executive Center Circle West
Suite 106
Tallahassee, FL 32301
850/487-0554

Susan Shipman

Designee for C. Duane Harris
Director
Department of Natural Resources
Coastal Resources Division
One Conservation Way
Brunswick, GA 31523-8600
912/264-7218
e-mail: s2@dnrcrd.dnr.state.ga.us

Lt. Commander Dave Cinalli

Designee for RADM Thad Allen Commander
Seventh Coast Guard District
Brickell Plaza Federal Building
909 S.E. First Avenue
Miami, FL 33131-3050
305/536-3050
dcinalli@d7.uscg.mil

Dr. Louis Daniel

Designee for Preston Pate
Director
N.C. Dept. of Envir., Health and Nat. Resources
Division of Marine Fisheries
P.O. Box 769
Morehead City, NC 28557
252/726-7021 (ext. 105)
e-mail: louis.daniel@ncmail.net

Charles W. Stone

296 Rum Gully Road
Murrell's Inlet, SC 28557
843/651-1645
e-mail: cstone@sccoast.net

Clarence Wayne Lee

3000 Raymond Avenue
Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948
252/480-1287
e-mail: cwlee2@mindspring.com

Jean-Pierre Ple'

Atlantic Fisheries Officer
Office of Fisheries Affairs, OES/OFA
Department of State, Room 5806
Washington, D.C.
202/647-1948