President Donal Trump signed an Executive Order back in April that raises the fish catch limits for Gulf of America fishing, but it's not clear just how the new rules are going to be handled.
The President's intention was to increase the nation's seafood output, but at first there were concerns whether the new catch limits might raise the number of recreational fishers to the detriment of commercial fishing interests.
Then came worries about over-fishing, which could affect the Red Snapper population, for instance, which faced critical shortages decades ago.
But the problem really is the lack of clarity on how the Presidential Order takes effect -- and now it seems to regular Gulf anglers that fishing will increase and so will competition, according to the host of the Doug Pike show Saturday and Sunday mornings on 790 KBME.
"I don't think that's going to happen, I don't think that needs to happen, I think we have plenty of Red Snapper.," he says.
Even though conservationists and some recreational anglers worry about overfishing, the commercial interests are most concerned about keeping their corner of the market.
"I don't believe that commercial fishermen believe the Red Snapper population is going down. I think they simply want to be sure to hang on to what's theirs," Pike noted.
And it's the recreational people who buy dinners and stay in motels and shop local grocers and businesses, he adds.
And those commercial interests are "concerned that they're going to lose their fish to the recreational people, who support Rockport, who support Corpus Christi and Galveston, who support Corpus Christi."