Skyway Fishing Pier Workshop 2022

FWC is gathering public input on potential fishing regulation options intended to reduce severe seabird entanglement at Skyway Fishing Pier State Park. After viewing this video, share your comments at MyFWC.com/SaltwaterComments.

[@RagingNana-KindredSpirit50]

The problem is people not cleaning up behind themselves. Also it's not all the pier fishers, it is also the boats that fish commercially and other boaters that fish

[@paulthomas6286]

I have only been to this pier 3 times and had bad experiences all 3 times because I was harassed by multiple people with shirts on that said friends of pelicans they would throw bait at the point where my lines were and lure tje pelicans to that spot and cause them to hit my lines then start hollering at me as if I did something wrong when it's actually them baiting birds so they would become entangled also I have watched them bait birds and throw a cast net at them hitting them with the weighted lead line knocking them unconscious briefly then once they get them up and over the rail slamming them to the hard deck of the pier when there was nothing wrong with the bird in tje first place I have lived in florida all my life and have never seen any sea bird treated with the utmost disrespect as those people do and the lack of respect they have for the fisherman and women is unheard of and I am 63 years old I don't feelbthe bird and line interaction would be as significant if they were forced to stop feeding and baiting them to the lines as it is against the law to feed wild migratory sea birds in the first place that's what I have witnessed and one of the main reasons I haven't returned in a while because I said the next time one of them pushed me or cursed my partner I would be arrested for hospitalizing them it was safer for them and cheaper for me to relocate just some things you should keep in mind while listening to them there the bad people in this quarrel and I'm not from the west coast I'm an east coast guy but I fish florida