Originally Posted by
polarcrafter
Saw the following on another form, don't who or what to believe!!!
" The amendment codifies "traditional hunting and fishing methods" in North Carolina which includes gill net fishing in inshore waters. You may be planning to vote for it to protect your hunting and fishing rights. If the amendment is approved, it will make gill netting a constitutional right protecting the "traditional" rights of the netters. NC is the only state on the East coast that still allows inshore netting. There's been a lot of pressure to end it and the Hunting and Fishing amendment is an end run around that pressure. Just vote NO. C'mon folks, you didn't really think the politicians were doing it to protect our rights, did you?
Originally Posted by
brhunt
This one is a slippery slope. And by you being surprised to see it says something is being hidden. It is my understanding that language was changed on this amendment to remove the exception of "traditional" commercial fishing methods. This very well could guarantee that gill nets will never be removed from our inland waters. If this amendment passes, it could be the end of inshore fishing in NC.
This is exactly what struck me as being so odd and why it prompted me to post this thread. It is not EVEN phrased in such a way that anyone with any sort of hunting and fishing heritage would vote "NO".
I knew the proposed amendment must surely have some other hidden agenda looming within it other than just the "GOOD INTENTIONED" protection of our hunting and fishing rights.
"Just Like Iron Sharpens Iron... So it is that One Man Sharpens Another Man." Proverbs 27:17