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Originally Posted by JamesJet
I am going to try and make it tomorrow night pending I can get out from work early. If I arrive late is it a problem based on others experience?
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Guys were walking in late last night, no problem as they go over everything several times.
I thought the meeting was well attended last night, a full room of probably 50 people consisting of a good mix of commercial, rec and charter boat captains. There was defineately a concensus in the room to take the strictest approach to managing the fishery, on both sides. In fact, if there were even more stringent solutions on the table I believe they would have been supported as well.
Option B (25% quota reduction in one year) and Sub-option B3 (one fish at 32" recreationally) were the options that just about everyone agreed to. Regarding Quota transfers, most in the room were against that possibility with only a couple guys in favor of it.
There was a bit of hesitancy about the issues at hand by a few guys who were curious to see what the next YOY data reveals next month.
I thought the meeting was well run and there was no real outrageous comments. However, I got the sense that most of us up here feel that when these meeting stretch down to the southern states, there will be little to no call for drastic changes/cuts. This was certainly echoed by the director Paul Diodati (sp)
I will say what everyone is saying here- get to a meeting and make your voice heard. It is extremely important.