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No sale. (gamefish status will do this) and it should also crush the bulk of the black market or at least make it much easier to enforce.
1 @ 36 possession rec limit ( and perhaps some seasonal limit via tags) This will limit rec take but allow the local economy related to fishing to continue
A real serious push to restore forage fish. For example: If the states were serious, herring would be fully restored by now, but they are not...herring only live a few years, yet they can't seem to restore them and several generations have passed since the moratorium. Why? It's because they stopped the rec guy from taking his dip net to the runs but little else. Comm fisherman take more in a by-catch in a day than what recs did all season. These managers have to be either stupid or naive or on the take from comm fishing entities. You tell me which it is. You need to STOP comm fishing for forage fish period, (and rec fishing if necessary) and RESTORE habitat in a meaningful way until forage fish become a problem, then you open it up to commercialization. None of this has happened and probably will not happen. So I have given up on you fishery people. You all are playing in a sandbox and have no idea what you are doing, they have proven this more than once. It feels good to them as they tag what they are doing with a "science" basis but then dilute it with political, public and user group opinion so in the end nothing effective actually happens. Sorry, this is just the way I feel. Fishery departments are not constructive, they are destructive, they need to build up fish stocks across the board. Not just SB.
This all has to happen coast wide not statewide. That is why a US gamefish status would bypass all this state by state crap. Look at how it worked the west coast
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