Open season on Goliathath grouper? If you can't eat them why would you kill them?? What are your thoughts everyone? @jim_abernethy 📷 ・・・ The death of Goliath Grouper as a species may happen very soon, if we all don't get out and speak for these majestic friendly creatures! FWC is having hearings to allow you to speak up for these incredible fish! Fisherman say this fish is eating all the fish and they speak in greater numbers than divers so far! Let's change that at these hearings! Science completely disagrees: 1. A 2010 Florida State University research paper found that the Goliath Grouper was still "Overfished and Critically Endangered!" 2. Another research paper by Sarah Frias Torres Ph.D shows that that overfishing not Goliath Groupers is the reason for declining fish and lobster stocks. 3. In 2016 a panel of scientists rejected a stock assessment saying the stocks had recovered, because that survey was li.ited to just one small area. 4. Current analysis of stomach content by University of Florida shows 85% of their diet are crabs and 15% are slow poisonous fish such as puffer fish, catfish and stingrays...not game fish. 5. Florida State University researchers found and published a paper showing that reef fish abundance and diversity is actually higher when goliath Groupers were present. 6. Dr. Chris Koenig studies reveal that the poisonous mercury levels of up to 3.5 ppm far exceed the level of 1.0 ppm where the sale of any fish is prohibited! At .5 ppm the Natural Resourses Defense Council recommends we avoid eating these fish because of the well known documented effects of mercury poisoning. 7. Dr. Silvia Earle says that "killing the Goliath Grouper would actually be killing the growing economic benefits derived from divers who want to see these Iconic animals who are often as curious as us." So why in the world would we ever want to allow the slaughter of these sentient creatures? Please repost this everywhere to help Goliaths! PLEASE get to these meetings and speak up for these magnificent creatures! See you there! @jim_abernethy #savegoliathgrouper #bethevoice #saveoceans #stopkilling #bethechangetheworldneeds #protectwhatyoulove #lovegoliaths #
