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I feel like I gotta make a disclaimer before the rant that follows. I kill and eat some of the fish I catch. I’ve shot ducks and upland birds. I’m not a tree-hugging PETA weenie. I’ve been kept off beaches and made death marches across long stretches of sand because of plovers.
That having been said, I want to suggest in the most constructive way that threads like this are a bad idea on the web. This is the kind of stuff that the Audubon people love. They quote this stuff in their magazines and pamphlets and brand every fisherman as a know-nothing yahoo. Petitions get circulated to shut beaches and ban SUVs. Whatever you think about least terns and plovers, keep it to yourself. You’d be turning yourself inside out and protesting and picketing if there were only 1600 breeding pair of striped bass in the Northeast. That’s how many plovers there are, and there are people who are as passionate about them as we are about stripers. Don’t give ‘em the ammo; it’ll only come back to bite you where you fish. Rant over and tight lines.
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