of it currently have restrictions in place or
bans in place. We have been working as
advocates to try to get fresh looks at each of
these restrictions and also to prevent
further restrictions. Those parks include
Gulf Island National Seashore, which
straddles the Florida panhandle across into
Alabama. There’s the FloridaKeysNational
Marine Sanctuary, Biscayne Bay, and finally,
the park called Pictured Rocks, which is up
inMichiganon theGreat Lakes.
BUSINESS WORLD:
How effective
have you been so far in stating the industry
concerns about those managerial changes
and the plans that they’re looking at and
restrictions? Have they been receptive? Or
have they been pretty gung-ho about going
hard inone direction?
DICKERSON: Well, the Florida Keys is
farthest along in the process and they have
been very receptive. One of our issues down
there was the large number of rentals that
were, really, in conflict with the commercial
fishermen and recreational fishermen. And,
when I say commercial, I mean the fishing
guides. And, going down there andworking
with the fishing guides, as well as the PWC
l iveries, they struck a deal among
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