Last Chance Before they Take Away Our Freedom AGAIN!!

[Lido-Gambler]

Comment period extended to 10/31

The Gambler is vehemently opposed to the idea of further speed restrictions on the Atlantic because of the extremely slight chance of striking a right whale. In this day and age I guess whales are more important than people and their livelihoods.

After years of dictating where and when we can sail to provide entertainment for our customers through fisheries management, they are now in the process of creating rules to govern how fast we can go at sea. NOAA is engaged in an all new and fresh “Save the Whales” initiative, which in their own words, and according to their own data would cause a 25.6% loss in revenues for passenger carrying vessels, with no plan to compensate any effected business for an estimated 46 million dollars in losses. These losses will devastate local business, not to mention slow the delivery of cargo and commercial goods into our ports.

We ask that you assist us in providing public comment and feedback to NOAA before the September 30th deadline.

To leave a public comment they make it much harder to access. You must go this page https://www.regulations.gov/and search for NOAA-NMFS-2022-0022

Once located scroll down to the proposed rule.

Chris

Gerry here. I wanted to provide a update

Here is a direct link to submit comments https://www.regulations.gov/commento...2022-0022-0005 they are due by 9/30

The people I know that are close to this think this is going to get pushed through and will happen. Two things we can do when we write comments is to suggest that they
1) Extend their decision
2) Separate recreational fishing vessels from commercial shipping boats since recreational boats are more maneuverable and can avoid strikes. Recreation rules should be something sensible along the lines of a 25 knot daytime speed limit from sunrise to sunset, must have a look out standing by with operator. Sunset to daybreak it goes back to 10 knots.