Dear Friends,
I am asking a favor of all of you.  As most of you know, Bug Light was removed a little over a year ago and the loss of baitfish and other larger fish in that area has been dramatic.  Bruce Marx (email listed above) is heading up an effort to restore this FAD.  We need letters (Emails) similar to the attached from the American Sportfishing Association from either you personally or your company or both.  It doesn’t have to be long, even one paragraph asking for the replacement of that FAD.  If you would write the letter to Superintendent Carlstrom but email it to Bruce Marx  bmarx@MARLOWADLER.COM.  Bruce is a local maritime attorney that has graciously donated his time to this cause.  He was successful in recently saving the Bent Range Marker off of Gov’t Cut and needs your help to bring this one back!  These letters are all he is asking for in his efforts to convince Superintendent Carlstrom to restore this marker that had existed there since 1929.
Many Thanks—Ray

Ray Rosher
Miss Britt Charters
Miami Fl
Cell 305-788-3474
Office 305-596-0419
September  10,2015
Dear Superintendent  Carlstrom:

The  American Sportfishing Association’s Keep Florida Fishing campaign  emphatically supports
the  installation of a  Fish Aggregating Device (FAD)  in the  location of the former  Bug Light
Marker within Biscayne  National Park.

Bug Light  provided important habitat for a  wide variety of  marine life, and its  removal has
resulted  in a  dramatic decrease  in bo& biological diversity and  in the presence  of baitfish.
Baitfish are  not only  important ecologically as  food sources for other species,  but they are also
important economically, serving as the  foundation for many  recreational fishing activities.  The
negative impacts of the  Bug Light  removal could be reversed with the  installation of an FAD at
the  Bug Light  location that would reestablish necessary  habitat to support  marine species and
would restore baitfish availability for  our anglers.

The  mission of the  Keep Florida Fishing initiative is  to ensure that Florida’s resident anglers and
visitors have abundant fisheries and is backed  by the Americam Sporfishing Association&  the
nation’s recreational fishing trade  association. ASA represents  sportfishing manufacture’s,
retailers, wholesalers, and angler advocacy groups, as well as the interests of  America’s 46
million  recreational anglers,  over 3 million of  whom reside  in or frequent Florida. ASA also
safeguards and promotes the  social, economic, and conservation values of  sportfishing in

America, which result in a $115 billion per year  impact on the  nation’s economy and $8.6 billion
in Florida alone.

We urge Biscayne  National Park  to support the  installation of an FAD in the  location where the
Bug Light Marker formerly stood and restore  the significant environmental and  economic
benefits the  Marker once  provided.

Kellie  Ralston
Florida Fishing Policy Director
American Sportfishing Association