View Full Version : FYI on the pogie Boats in Boston Harbor


Fisherwoman
09-02-2009, 06:26 PM
For those of you who fish Boston Harbor waters and have had it with the pogie seining boats, you need to come to this meeting tomorrow if you can come, the more people who come the better chance we have of getting them out of there, otherwise we will lose all of the bait around here and you can say good bye to the fishing. If the fish have no food to eat they are not going to stick around. We will be there as it took me 3 hours to get bait again yesterday and today, yes they were there and they were boarded but the pogie boat from Hull can go in there as long as he is outside of the moorings and not interfering with fishing. I was in there late this afternoon and they did a set that would have made you sick, literally took them almost 2 hours to empty the net on one set and even had another boat come in and take all the full totes they had and they were still filling and the net was not even empty yet. After that set you did not see a pogie flipping anywhere. SO WE WILL BE there and I hope you will join us.


ACTION ALERT

To: MA Recreational Fishing Community

RE: Complaints of Pogie Boats (Samll Menhaden Purse Seiners) causing user conflicts and localized depletion of Menhaden in Boston's Inner Harbor

Fishermen and Charter Boat Operators that want MA DMF to do something about the current increase in commercial fishing for Pogies in Boston;s Inner Harbor and the surrounding Bays and Estuaries has the opportunity to attend and state their complaints to the MA Marine Fish Advisory Commission & DMF Officials at the regularly scheduled meeeting of the MA Marine Fish Advisory Commission (the group appointed to represent your interests) on THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3 2009. The meeitng is being held st the Radisson hotel in Plymouth MA which is located at 100 Water Street.

Although the issue is not on the agenda, the commission is aware of the issue and anyone that attends will be given time to speak. The following link shows the complete agenda for the day. Those wishing to adress the Pogie Boat issue are urged to show up around 1 pm as this issue will not be adressed before lunch.

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/marinefisheriesnotices/mfc/mfc_sept_agenda_083109.htm

blue oyster
09-03-2009, 05:38 PM
they wiped them out it was a virtual barren waste land today , yesterday 1 net set 25 pogies , today 5 sets no fish .