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Originally Posted by tlapinski
I still feel that the simplest measure would be a straight-up cut in half for everyone. Recs go from 2 fish to 1, commercial quota cut in half across the board, and so on. The for-hire group must also be addressed and the taking of a limit of fish for every person on the boat (mates, captain, cook, ballwasher, etc.) needs to stop. This is how the law is written in NY, but from what I am told it is not enforced with the reason being that "it is allowed in all the surrounding states so why do we have to follow this rule?"  |
An equal cut across the board would be ideal but to cut the recreational take in half we would need to see something like 1@36 and a closed season. A 50% cut on the commercial quota is easy because it's measured but going from a 2 fish limit down to 1 would result in a much smaller % decrease on the rec side because not everyone always catches or chooses to keep two legal sized fish.