http://www.outdoorcentral.com/2008/12/10/noaa-charges-florida-dive-charter-businesses-for-fishing-without-federal-permits/ Your Multi Species Fishing, Hunting, & Outdoors Recreation News & Information Center. Looking for bass fishing reports, river reports, hunting reports, or other outdoors recreation? Outdoor Central News Network is your fishing & hunting news answer. We've been your source for news and information, covering fishing, hunting, outdoor recreation, and state parks since 1997. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:28:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.outdoorcentral.com/2008/12/10/noaa-charges-florida-dive-charter-businesses-for-fishing-without-federal-permits/comment-page-1/#comment-241 john doe Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:36:17 +0000 http://www.outdoorcentral.com/?p=5750#comment-241 I don't ever post on the forums because people blow things up way out of proportion but I can not sit back on this one anymore. Let me say I know both captains personally. They are not outlaws like it is made out to be. Are they wrong for allowing a guest to bring a speargun out to the Oriskany, yes. but neither one of these guys ran spearfishing charters. the fact is noaa actually tried to book a spearfishing trip on the Daisy D. and not even knowing who they were at the time he stated he does not do spearfishing charters because of not having a reef permit. Is what they are both guilty of and admit to is when a guest would show up to the boat with a gun if it was a big deal to the guest they would allow them to bring it. this is Oriskany trips, nothing worth shooting there anyway! The trips that both captains are charged with where oriskany trips where the undercover guys where the only ones with spearguns and the others where just divers. Yes it is wrong of them allowing someone to bring a spear gun on board for a oriskany trip but this does not sound like they run spearfishing charters to me. the thing I think is funny as hell are the two guys are not even very good spearfisherman. They came back to the boats with the fish on the end of the shaft and cable all tangled up around them, hell one guy even stuck his knife through his hand and had to get bandaged up by the captain. I don't understand why when there are people actually chartering fishing trips and do not have this permit why these two guys who ran dive boats and allowed someone every now and then to bring a gun onboard was targeted in this investigation.And its very obvious they where targeted. And why the hell are these idiot government agents wasting our tax dollars on two guys that did not run spearfishing charters. Why not go after the boats that are really chartering fishing trips illegally. Just my two cents I don’t ever post on the forums because people blow things up way out of proportion but I can not sit back on this one anymore. Let me say I know both captains personally. They are not outlaws like it is made out to be. Are they wrong for allowing a guest to bring a speargun out to the Oriskany, yes. but neither one of these guys ran spearfishing charters. the fact is noaa actually tried to book a spearfishing trip on the Daisy D. and not even knowing who they were at the time he stated he does not do spearfishing charters because of not having a reef permit. Is what they are both guilty of and admit to is when a guest would show up to the boat with a gun if it was a big deal to the guest they would allow them to bring it. this is Oriskany trips, nothing worth shooting there anyway! The trips that both captains are charged with where oriskany trips where the undercover guys where the only ones with spearguns and the others where just divers. Yes it is wrong of them allowing someone to bring a spear gun on board for a oriskany trip but this does not sound like they run spearfishing charters to me. the thing I think is funny as hell are the two guys are not even very good spearfisherman. They came back to the boats with the fish on the end of the shaft and cable all tangled up around them, hell one guy even stuck his knife through his hand and had to get bandaged up by the captain. I don’t understand why when there are people actually chartering fishing trips and do not have this permit why these two guys who ran dive boats and allowed someone every now and then to bring a gun onboard was targeted in this investigation.And its very obvious they where targeted. And why the hell are these idiot government agents wasting our tax dollars on two guys that did not run spearfishing charters. Why not go after the boats that are really chartering fishing trips illegally. Just my two cents

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