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Volume 4, No. 3

March, 2006

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My Calendar

Apr 4, 6:30 pm

Coastal Bend Guides Association Monthly Meeting at New China Town Restaurant, Aransas Pass.

Apr 5, 7:30 pm

Port Aransas Boatman's Monthly Meeting at Port Aransas Community Center

TSFGW Hit Statistics

(Jan)

Hits: 36,709

Visits: 6,860

(Feb)

Hits: 44,149

Visits: 7,480

(Mar)

Hits: 55, 682

Visits: 11,644

The Coastal Bend Guides Association is planning a tournament for ladies and this is the subject of our first article.  We have one renewing member and one new member this month.  Our third article deals with traffic to this web site - which was phenomenal for the month of March.  Our last article deals with the proposed LNG terminal off of Galveston.

Steve Purcell

CBGA's Ladies Tournament

The Coastal Bend Guides Association is planning a Ladies Fishing Tournament.  Contact Conni McDaniel Hall by email at cemcd28@earthlink.net or by telephone at (361) 775-1144 for further details.  We'll keep everyone informed of new developments.

New and Renewing Members

The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides would like to welcome our newest member.  Captain Pat Hunt started fishing the bays of the Coastal Bend in the 1950s.  His web site is located at: http://www.pathuntfishing.com, and his email address is: pjhunt@cableone.net.

We would also like to welcome renewing member Captain Don Miller.  Captain Don also guides along the Coastal Bend.  His web site is located at: http://www.millertimeguideservice.com, and his email address is: dmmiller@cableone.net.

Welcome, gents!

TSFGw is still growing and growing...

The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides web received an astonishing 55,682 hits and over 11,500 visits during the month of March, 2006.  The web site received almost twice the number of hits over this period last year.  The 11,500 unique visits, which is the more important number, represents almost a three fold increase over March of 2005.

If you're a member, then potential customers are looking at your web site.  We send every member a report each month listing the number of visitors that we sent to their web site.

Right now, a member can expect to receive in the neighborhood of 100 visitors from us during a month.  Even if a member only gets one trip per season-month from the web site, that works out to an extra 8-10 trips per year - which is definitely something to think about when you consider that it only costs $80 per year to be a member.

Our prices have remained constant over the four years that this web site has been in existence.  My costs are basically in the time that is spent keeping the web site high in the search engines.  Currently, the TSFGw site is on page one of Yahoo and MSN, and page 2 of Google.

The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides web publishes it's traffic statistics on a monthly basis for all to see.  Click here to go to our statistics page.

LNG terminal would harm fisheries

By Laura Elder
The Galveston Daily News


Published March 23, 2006

GALVESTON — It involves billions of dollars and pits big energy against commercial and recreational fishing industries — all groups Texas politicians are loath to anger.

The issue is ConocoPhillip’s proposed liquefied natural gas port, a topic that drew about 50 people to the island’s convention center Wednesday.

Dubbed Beacon Port, the terminal planned for a spot 50 miles offshore of Galveston, would receive super-chilled natural gas from vessels, reheat it and ship it through pipelines to consumers in Louisiana and beyond.

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration convened the hearing to receive public comment about their Draft Environmental Impact Statement of Beacon Port.

They got it as the debate about science and statistics intensifies.

“The DEIS shows that the Beacon Port terminal, if permitted to use an open-loop vaporizer, could destroy the equivalent of nearly 32,000 pounds of red snapper and over half a million pounds of redfish every year,” said Briana Kerstein, outreach coordinator for Gulf Restoration Network. “This is more than half the amount of redfish caught in Texas annually.”

Natural gas in liquid form is cooled to 260 F below zero.

To reheat the gas, ConocoPhillips plans to use an open-rack system in which millions of gallons of seawater are pumped around pipes carrying LNG, which vaporizes. The water is returned to sea at temperatures colder than normal. Open-rack opponents say it would destroy millions of fish, crustacean eggs and larvae, harming fisheries.

In a separate interview, ConocoPhillips officials said that numbers Kerstein and others produced were the extreme, not likely to be correct and that the company would mitigate harm to organisms.

They also say Beacon Port would affect less than half of 1 percent of the annual harvest of red drum and far less in other categories.

Stakeholders have until April 6 to comment about the draft environmental impact statement, before federal agencies begin preparing a final document.

 

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