CHRISTIANSTED — The Department of Planning and Natural Resources said that the Division of Fish and Wildlife will be holding meetings about recreational fishing throughout the territory.
On St. Thomas, the meeting will be held on Thursday, May 9th at 7 p.m. at the V.I. Housing Finance Authority training room in Frenchtown.
On St. Croix, the meeting will be held on Thursday, May 16th at 7 p.m. at the Division of Fish and Wildlife Mars Hill office in Frederiksted.
“The purpose of these meetings is to discuss recreational fishing licenses, annual catch limits, electronic reporting, logbooks and more,” DPNR Commissioner nominee Jean-Pierre Oriol said. “The meetings are also an opportunity to discuss why and how your data is used to keep our fishery healthy and sustainable.”
All are welcome: charters, private anglers, shoreline fishers, divers, and spearfishers.
Please call the Division of Fish and Wildlife with any questions in St. Thomas 340-775-6762 or St. Croix 340-773-1082.
That is so stupid DPNR harassing the little recreational fisherman that 50% off the time never catches anything, but is not seeing the damage that is being done by these commercial fisher man, they worried about a 2 to 10 pounds catch of fish from a recreational fisherman that does it to relax mentally from a long days of work. But they don’t see the thousands of pounds that these commercial fisherman do not report… DPNR is a bunch CLOWNS!!! They AFRAID to confront the commercial fisherman, but want to show muscle on the guys that fishes once or twice a month. BIG CLOWNS!!!!!! They can stick that meeting up where the sun don’t shine along with there licenses… I will continue doing my recreational fishing. Catch me if you can clowns>>>>>>:)