Dear editors

Bridge fishermen the root of all evil

An open letter to governor Crist, it has come to my attention that an ingenious plan, soon to be implemented short of a veto by you, in the form of a required license for most anybody to catch their supper from the shoreline here in Florida. Under the guise of saving the reef and natural resources, I suspect this new law will mostly affect those who have less in a material world. While at this very moment big sugar in the everglades, boats with trips for power, and northern industry dumping remnants of fossil fuel into the near shore waters will effect water quality and resources on a grander scale than fifteen pound test fishing line, a shrimp, and a dead grunt winding up on a dinner plate. May I suggest a refocus please onto the bigger issues rather than latching onto the poorest of folk for a perceived economic solution fabricated by some group enacting yet another ploy to extract money from the poor and give to the rich or subjecting we the people if not in compliance to punishment. Surly our forefathers would roll in their graves at the notion of the humblest act of shoreline fishing requiring government approval. “They are endowed (we the people) by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” John Adams.  Please veto I implore you, see you on the bridge sometime with a cane pole and a dime in my pocket.

John Gerace