A DIFFERENT BREED OF CAT

After Florida voters outlawed most commercial fishing nets in the election of November 1994, sportsmen rose in unison across the Gulf of Mexico. Marshalled by the sport-fishing industry's Coastal Conservation Association, recreational anglers in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana demanded that their own states Ban the Nets!
With a national "fish crisis" media campaign as backdrop, hysteria over a threatened invasion by out-of-work commercial fishermen from the Sunshine State presented sport...