Hey Bill,
I think he didn't have too bad of a proposal on the West Wall, the Center wall one was worse for the local boaters there and would shut them out.
He was saying that the best fishing was from the beach, not the closest that the wall gets to the beach. He was also saying that he would have the West Wall trap removed on June 15th - so that would not effect the late season albie fishing at all. But he did not say that he was going to take down the Center Wall trap. My impression was that he would leave that one up all the time.
What got me about the West Wall was - there just was not enough info available or out there yet, was that it could impede the travel of the fish in and out? Could it be a danger to the little boats that run up & down the wall? The cables that secure the fishtrap would anchor on the wall, so that could be a problem and would porevent people from running up & down the wall.
Supposedly, this trap is a lot smaller than other ones over by Newport. Is his a bad proposal? Maybe, maybe not. I personally did not feel that I had enough info about it to personally sway me that it was not going to hurt the average Joe fishing in that area. With more info, I may not have been opposed to it.
If I remember correctly from the map the people that showed up on time had, this was ablout the location for the trap...
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