Well this really could set an unwanted precedent.

yeah we need to lay off fluke for a bit. some years are pretty good but lately the inshore spots just don't have many bigger fish

Has anything GOOD ever come out of New Jersey?

Certainly not Jersey barriers , the only state you have to drive through to turn around
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great- now Wilbur Ross knows more about fisheries management than the Commission that is charged with the job.......

you know- since he's such a big fisherman

it all in the de regulation agenda of the new administration

The decision was made on the advice of NMFS. Ross just rubber stamped it. So now we will have NMFS second guessing the MAFMC/ASMFC fishery plans even after they approve them!

if that's the case, it may not be a bad thing.... ASMFC is accountable to no one, even their own technical committee advice. NMFS has more legal constraints that compels them to act when fishery numbers go down

if that's the case, it may not be a bad thing.... ASMFC is accountable to no one, even their own technical committee advice. NMFS has more legal constraints that compels them to act when fishery numbers go down

Its a very bad thing. Summer flounder, scup and sea bass are jointly managed by the ASMFC and MAFMC, so anything that's approved already has to meet federal requirements. This is just precedent for the NMFS second guessing the ASMFC as to what actions constitute "conservational equivalency."

Has anything GOOD ever come out of New Jersey?

ANSWER: YES GEORGE: ME!!!

Its a very bad thing. Summer flounder, scup and sea bass are jointly managed by the ASMFC and MAFMC, so anything that's approved already has to meet federal requirements. This is just precedent for the NMFS second guessing the ASMFC as to what actions constitute "conservational equivalency."

more regulations/bureaucracy is never a good thing, but ASMFC has proven time after time that they are not good at managing species proactively- they sit on their hands and cater to the commercial interests/states until things require drastic changes to avoid catastrophe....