CCA Membership

[captainsling]

I spend several months doing the same, all I’m doing is bring awareness to fact CCA is NOT local waterman friendly.

Let’s be honest 99% of people are clueless to where their seafood comes from including if it is being locally, regional, or foreign sourced.

CCA has done more for fish numbers and habitat than any other conservation effort in history.

If it wasn’t for them the commercial business would have wiped out redfish all together. They had a buy back program to buy bay shrimping licenses that ended. It made a huge impact. Those shrimpers didn’t have to sell those licenses if they didn’t want to. They have had no impact on gulf shrimping which will never go away. Most of the crap in the grocery store is what you speak of. I buy fresh, or don’t buy at all. It’s that simple.

I also guaranty if you are eating fish in a restaurant in the High Plains, you are not eating what you think you are.

[SaltwaterSlick]

IMHO, CCA is like the unions, it was a great organization when it began and I was a member of it for years, from the time in the early days when it was the GCCA, but like the trade unions, it has run its course and outlived its usefulness. They're trying to justify their existence by picking new pet peeve projects and issues. I'll not give them another dime... LOTS of folks believe the same way, otherwise they'd not have to bribe folks to sign up by promising something unrelated to fishing (new rifle) to get folks to join. The CCA is the SINGLE reason bowfishing for catfish was taken away as another legal means of take. They have evolved into another BASS organization that is doing its best to shame fishermen into catch and release... If they had their way, we would not be able to keep any trout or redfish... Their idea is if you want to keep any fish, keep a dang sheephead... No thank you, I will not support that mentality.

[El General]

If they had their way, we would not be able to keep any trout or redfish... Their idea is if you want to keep any fish, keep a dang sheephead... No thank you, I will not support that mentality.

This is laughable. I know quite a few of the people that run CCA. Not only do they keep fish, I very seriously doubt that many of them have kept a sheepshead ever.

[ultrastealth]

Flounder are next. Increase in minimum size length and decrease in bag limit. Carry on.


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I don't have a problem with this. It's supported by actual science.

[Pushbutton2]

What is CCA?

As Always My Heart is filled with Love for You and Your Families. Not because I am commanded to Love my Neighbor, but because I can, am able to and it brings me Joy.

[Matthew]

CCA has done more for fish numbers and habitat than any other conservation effort in history.

If it wasn’t for them the commercial business would have wiped out redfish all together. They had a buy back program to buy bay shrimping licenses that ended. It made a huge impact. Those shrimpers didn’t have to sell those licenses if they didn’t want to. They have had no impact on gulf shrimping which will never go away. Most of the crap in the grocery store is what you speak of. I buy fresh, or don’t buy at all. It’s that simple.

I also guaranty if you are eating fish in a restaurant in the High Plains, you are not eating what you think you are.

Our shrimpers are getting hammered by import & farm raised shrimp. Simply can't compete.
There are a select few markets and restaurants that sell gulf shrimp, but they're priced at a premium.

Bottom line is that our fisheries can not support the consumption rate, so restaurants are pretty much forced to sell import & farm raised chit. And most of the general public doesn't care.

[Conway]

any more info on the gun?

[Slabby]

CCA and NWTF= good when they started, now (like most things) greed has taken its toll. I think I'll keep my $ in my pocket

[HOOKNBULLET2]

The gun is a Vanguard per Liz Bosnians with CCA Texas.

[skeeterboud]

v/g

in response to my emails...it has a true 26 barrel, and a muzzle break, pillar bedded full length al stock.(looks like a bell/Carlson)

[Quackerbox]

CCA is not a friend to the commercial fishing industry. Why would they be? They were started to literally combat the commercial fishing industries wanton slaughter of finfish in gill nets.

CCA has done more for fish numbers and habitat than any other conservation effort in history.

If it wasn’t for them the commercial business would have wiped out redfish all together. They had a buy back program to buy bay shrimping licenses that ended. It made a huge impact. Those shrimpers didn’t have to sell those licenses if they didn’t want to. They have had no impact on gulf shrimping which will never go away. Most of the crap in the grocery store is what you speak of. I buy fresh, or don’t buy at all. It’s that simple.

I also guaranty if you are eating fish in a restaurant in the High Plains, you are not eating what you think you are.

Our shrimpers are getting hammered by import & farm raised shrimp. Simply can't compete.
There are a select few markets and restaurants that sell gulf shrimp, but they're priced at a premium.

Bottom line is that our fisheries can not support the consumption rate, so restaurants are pretty much forced to sell import & farm raised chit. And most of the general public doesn't care.

All of this.

I will go without shrimp before I buy imported. Period.

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[rvd]

Ch

That's a good promotion. I don't agree with or like everything CCA does but I do have a passion for the same things that they are trying to protect so I join annually. Same with T&BT, Flatsworthy, ITCA, and others I'm probably forgetting about. Pretty easy to find reasons to not get involved, I feel like I need to be involved in the things that are important to me if I want them to continue to exist. I don't like everything about public schools but I'm on the local school board, don't like everything about the Baptist Church but I'm a Deacon, etc...

I buy my shrimp off the boat too

[Cajun Blake]

I don’t support CCA because they don’t support bow fishing in Louisiana. CCA has paid lobbyists and bankrolled State representatives to sponsor bills in the legislature to ban and make bow fishing for redfish illegal.

Not sure who was responsible for the regulations and classifying redfish as “gamefish” in Texas ( TPW , CCA , ? ). I know many in the Lone Star State were not happy. I’m thankful that Louisiana has such a strong fishing estuary which allows for the liberal limits.

[rvd]

I don’t support CCA because they don’t support bow fishing in Louisiana. CCA has paid lobbyists and bankrolled State representatives to sponsor bills in the legislature to ban and make bow fishing for redfish illegal.

Not sure who was responsible for the regulations and classifying redfish as “gamefish” in Texas ( TPW , CCA , ? ). I know many in the Lone Star State were not happy. I’m thankful that Louisiana has such a strong fishing estuary which allows for the liberal limits.

You and I differ are few things Blake but I don’t see the need to shoot redfish with a bow so I’m drawing the line now lol!!!

[Cajun Blake]

You and I differ are few things Blake but I don’t see the need to shoot redfish with a bow so I’m drawing the line now lol!!!

No problem brother as I respect your opinion on this matter. I understand that the sport and means of harvest doesn’t appeal to everybody. Just like the love/hate relationship with crossbow hunters, hunting over corn, and those who deer hunt with dogs. As an ethical outdoorsman, I see no problem with various hunting/fishing methods as long as you abide by the rules and regulations.