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Originally Posted by stripermaineiac
The problem is Mike is that the numbers they keep using have shown to be flawed so often that all they've done so far is make things worse not improved things.we need to change the process. This isn't about what won't work we need to do something that will. ASMFC has shown it's self to be not just inefective but biased against the fish not just one user group or another.If we just sit on our hands and do nothing instead of working towards action that is posetive than we might just as well all give it up.I don't buy it.1 there are way too many of us to just say we don't count.2 all these appointees work for us it's time we show them that.I don't mind someone makeing a decision when voted or appointed to do so but time n time again they have shown that they're not up to doing the job. to continually ignore all of us time and again and for us to keep being proven right then it's time we changed this process or make them fix it.
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To the contrary, the numbers they have been using have proven to be correct. None of us on here are "fishery Scientists" and that is what the managers are required to us, e.g. the "best available science." Like many here, you would like the fishery to be managed to maximize the population, but that is not the legally mandated requirement they have to work toward. As I have said before, if you want to change the system you have to use the legislative process, and with the Magnesson-Stevens act up for renewal now is you chance.
FWIW - based on the numbers that I have heard tossed about going to a one fish per day creel limit is a virtual certainty, but that alone won't be enough to do the job. They will also have to take other measures to reduce the harvest.