“He firmly believed that if you really messed up Mother Nature, you were going to pay a dear price. Maybe not that generation, but maybe by the next gener-ation. And this has been very true,” Hurst says. “We don’t have near the fish we used to have. I remember when five of us made a haul of 13,000 pounds of mullet in one haul. You’ll never do that again.” However, Hurst is concerned rule mak-ers don’t have fishing backgrounds. “We have invested in all this equip-ment and then at the stroke of a pen, they will tell us you can’t catch this and you can’t catch that. Now, if they would tell us a year ahead of time, we wouldn’t be preparing our nets and such,” he explains. Still, Hurst fishes every day. He goes When Jim’s heart was racing dangerously, his cardiologists diagnosed the problem and performed pacemaker defibrillator surgery at NHRMC Heart Center. He crossed off this bucket list item in Spain 11 months later. www.nhrmc.org I got to run with the bulls. Regional Heart Center. Nationally Recognized. 58 WBM november 2014 NHRMCHeart_BusbyWBM1114.indd 1 9/25/14 10:10 AM
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