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30 WitlJ this abolition of checks and balemces within the fisheries 



31 management system what we have now in NOAA amounts to a 



32 dictatorship or at least a fiefdom where sportfishing friends are 



33 rewarded and commercial fishing enemies punished. This is not a 



34 good way to run our government, 

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36 What we hope you look at during your Hearing is the difference 



37 between Councils. There is no way anybody can compare the Alaska 



38 Council with any other Council. There is no way you can compare 



39 the Pacific Council with the South Atlantic Council. Two 



40 different worlds. 

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42 As an aside, on the South Atlantic Council for instance, the 



43 State of South Carolina has still never had a fulltime commercial 



44 fishing representative as a member of that elite group during the 



45 entire IS years of its existence. 

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47 As a matter of fact, the Vice-chairman of the South Atlantic 



48 Council IS also a leader of a petition drive to ban all gillnets 



49 in Florida waters and prohibit all nets greater than 500 square 



50 feet inside three miles of shore on the Gulf of Mexico side of 



51 Florida. 

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