BY BO PETERSEN
The Post and Courier

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The mood in the room was almost resigned. Anglers kept tossing out suggestions to forestall closing bottom fishing offshore. But only about a dozen spoke. A few more listened and then walked away. At one of the last public hearings before the drastic step is voted on to protect the red snapper, there was a sense that this one was going to get away. "We know it's probably going to happen. We want to hopefully get the severity of it down as much as possible, and to validate the science (behind the decision on closure)," said Mike Able, a Coastal Conservation Association of South Carolina member, who owns Haddrell's Point Tackle &amp; Supply in Mount Pleasant. "We've come to find out (arguing against it) has taken us nowhere. We're trying to work with the council," said Wayne Mershon, of Kenyon's Seafood in Murrells Inlet. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council held the hearing Monday in North Charleston, one of a series along the coast of four Southeastern states.

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