"Write letters to any political or regulatory agency that will listen"

Ah! there's the rub!

Start a petition? why? There is evidence and common sense a-plenty to support removing nets, all of them, from rivers and estuarys. All have been ignored or laughed at by our courts, fisheries departments, and enforcement agencies.

There are laws on the books already that are supposed to limit the native and commercial netting, what good are they? nobody is ever there to enforce them, and the resource rape continues un-checked.

Why is it we have enough enforcement to go around checking on hook barbs and other major infractions by sportfishers, like keeping one or two fish over the limit! when we know nets are in being used in total disregard, taking more fish in one day than most of us catch in a year!. Why then would anyone think more laws, short of an all out ban, would help?

Only the lowest, mouth-beathing, knuckle-draggin' scum, would string a net across the mouth of a river, wipe-out the buffalo, kill and slaughter any species to extintion or nearly so, and frankly race or ethnicity has little to do with it, rather it's simply a matter of being the A-hole de-jouir'.

Oh, sorry, guess that's not PC!