Listen Up Fishing Enthusiasts!

Alabama Mobile  There's new rules when it comes to catching Alabama catfish. Find out why.
by The Associated Press
Published: Sun, December 14, 2008 - 11:14 pm CST
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Alabama has a new fishing rule aimed at
protecting an aging catfish population prowling the murky depths of
its many waterways.
Conservation officials hope it discourages out-of-state
fishermen from hauling away big catfish to put them in pay-to-fish
ponds up North.
The catch-limit rule, backed by trophy anglers, also covers
local fishermen, including some who doubt there's a shortage of big
catfish.
The state in October began enforcing a new regulation that says
only one catfish longer than 34 inches may be harvested each day by
an angler. It's the state's first catch limit on the nongame
catfish.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulation
also says live blue catfish or flathead catfish longer than 34
inches cannot be taken out of Alabama without written approval from
the state's conservation commissioner.
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Yeah Dew they is a pending lawsuit but it hasn,t gotten any better they can’t afford the improvemnts but they can’t wait on the racetrack how are they going to handle that when they are in violation now?Sounds like someone needs to put together a environmental injunction against them.No more building until it is feasible for the health and safety of downstream flora and fona.The life of the bay is reliant on it’s tributaries and and watersheds.
alabamaoutlaw

I know alabamaoutlaw, my brother-in-law works there, and he told me that almost every time Mobile receives more than 3-4 inches of rain, the gates come open. It’s mainly due to the overflow of water, however, there’s a lot of sewage mixed into it. I don’t know how much truth there is to that, but that’s what I was told. They have no choice but to let it go, otherwise everyone’s sewage would back up. Sounds like they need a better set-up to me.

Dew there are times when travling on 65 it will take your breath when you pass over the creeks between Saraland and Chickasaw .Baywatch a supposed citizen watchdog Organization has aligned with Mawss they are all over baywatches web site but are one of the worst enviromental threats Mobile County has.
alabamaoutlaw

least ***

I know it may seem silly to say, but sewage in the bay or rivers should be the lest of your worries. I can not imagine what kind of chemical sludge has built up on 8-mile-creek, Saraland, Rabbit creek from all of the industrial waste that has been “accidentally” spilled into the local watershed. MAWSS is just as bad as Pritchard, Bayou-la-Batre, or Washington County when it comes to excessive spill-overs after a rain storm.

I was just looking at an aerial photo. It does look better to the naked eye than it did a few years ago. Who knows what’s in that water? How many times has Pritchard been caught accidentally dumping sewage?

I thought there had been a lot of improvement after the chemical plants along 43 were forced to clean up their act.  Several years ago I saw a series of aerial photographs taken at different times spanning decades.  A clear visual plume was apparent as it entered the water ways and spread down stream.  The chemical waste had just about killed everything.

I live on Norton Creek an have watched it over the past few years become a silted in eroded cesspool that floods our neighorhood with seasonal rains. Look at all the sewer that the cities are pumping into the delta. low oxygen levels have killed or driven the fish away.With all the waterborne dieases out there it’s a wonder that more people are not affected each year.Our delta is salvagable but the environmental organizations are going to have to act.
alabamaoutlaw

Glamblitz, NO KIDDING.. have you seen how the streams near the proposed race tracks have CHANGED just in the last year? Does anyone think that’s not affecting our fish, forests and water?

There is a typo in that headline and it is bugging me a little. Makes me think there is a new fishing club or something. lol

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