Comments on: #15 Story Town Says Pound Net Would ‘Eliminate’ Fun Pier Fishing https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Scott MacMoyle https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-89489 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:28:40 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-89489 I do agree with you. Let the watermen make a living and let’s live and work together. Isn’t it reasonable to set aside one pier for the laymen and the recreational amateurs to enjoy the bay? The governing body allows for 162 pound nets in the bay. The needs of the watermen should and do outweigh the needs of the laymen but I think it’s not asking too much to give them a small spot in the big bay. No?

]]> By: Allen Hamilton https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-89466 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:59:39 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-89466 I echo the comments of Don & Debbie Bender, Chuck Churn, Bill Neville, Jimmy Parks and Buster Crabbe, natives and life long residents of the shore as I am. The cost of crabs is out of sight this year due to the shortage. Let watermen try to make a living as they have for the past 400 years. Farming and Fishing have been the backbone of our past. Lets continue the tradition. We all need to live and work together.

]]> By: Wayne Creed https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-88353 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:16:37 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-88353 A victory for data, common sense, and the real Cape Charles….is it too late to appeal the Old School decision to the VMRC? I’m sure they’ll be able to determine where the front of the school is.

]]> By: Deborah Bender https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-88120 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:21:12 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-88120 Good news today for Edward Bender. The VMRC voted unanimously to give Mr. Bender his license for a fish trap just off of Bayshore Concrete.

Guess the ex mayor doesn’t have as much sway as she thought :-)

]]> By: Melvin W. Williams, Jr. CWO, USCG (Ret) https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-83466 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:59:28 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-83466 As a kid and teenager I used to fish off the jetty and caught a lot of fish even when there were fish traps positioned on both sides of the entrance to the harbor and on the side of the jetty leading up to the beach. I knew a lot of fishers who used to tend to those nets, bringing their catch to Donny’s fish dock, processing, and shipping out. I used to fish off the old ferry dock until I realized that raw sewage was being dumped into the harbor from the sewer pipes under the dock. My close friend Walter Mendoza’s body was found washed up on that very jetty I used to fish off of. The aerial view brought back memories, for as one who grew up there on Strawberry Street graduating from NCHS ’63, I had the opportunity during my Coast Guard career in aviation to have flown in a search over that area and also landing downtown in a Coast Guard helo while stationed at Elizabeth City CG Air Station. I miss the croaker, drum, and spots runs.

]]> By: Scott MacMoyle https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-81500 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 23:56:23 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-81500 Yes, there are pound nets north and south of Kiptopeke State Park and people still fish from the pier. That’s all true — except they are not catching any fish! Thanks for that.

]]> By: Chuck Churn https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-81085 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:52:23 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-81085 Let the Watermen work so we can enjoy the seafood and they can feed their families. Rather than over-regulating, let’s put our efforts into keeping the bay clean; it would be a much better choice.

]]> By: Bill Neville https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-80527 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:37:40 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-80527 Pound nets have been in the area forever. I don’t believe they have much effect on the recreational fishing. When I was growing up in CC the fishing was as good or better and the nets were there then. The nets help to support the local economy, including a working harbor. The harbor is a great and increasing draw for the town. Sitting at the beach or on the boardwalk watching fisherman work their nets as well as watching workboats as they enter and leave the harbor greatly adds to the ambience of the area and it is real life stuff.

]]> By: Jimmy Parks https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-80268 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:07:57 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-80268 There are pound nets below the state parks and people fish off the pier at the park. There are pound nets north of the park also. Back in the ’60s there were pound nets from Plantation Creek to Cape Charles Harbor and one on the beach side of the jetty. There were also several pound nets on the bayside of Wescotts going all the way to Smith Beach. We still caught fish. Guess the next thing someone will complain about is a gill net along the harbor side of the jetty or off the beach at Aqua. A man has a right to make a living. Get real — seems like you grew up in a communist nation.

]]> By: Jill Combs https://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/town-says-pound-net-would-eliminate-fun-pier-fishing/#comment-79966 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:14:42 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=13451#comment-79966 Hey folks…..can’t we all just get along? The fish trap is not really the issue is it?

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