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Originally Posted by striperswiper75
I have yet to hear of any meetings scheduled in CT to go over C.E. From the documents I read CT indicated 1 fish at 28" for all anglers as the "preferred" option. The second option for CT is contingent on RI approving the exemption for the for hire industry (2@32"). If that option in RI fails then CT will only have the 1@28" plan left as an approved reduction plan.
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pretty sure CT will recommend the mode splits now that RI has indicated that they will be recommending the splits...Mass too I imagine
understand that "for-hire financial hardship" was never mentioned as a reason or rationale for recommending the mode splits the other night...
two reasons were given after pointing out that Mass and Ct we both considering the splits and that CT was most likely watching to see what RI was going to do and then follow suit...
uniformity of regulation between states was the first reason.....stated "we don't want boats fishing side by side with different regulations..."competitive advantage""(later stated they should have said "within modes")
sorry but this makes no sense for two reasons....SW fishing regulations from state to state currently vary both in size and bag limits and regarding length of "seasons" as well
while you might address the uniformity "within the modes" state to state...you create an even bigger issue of non-uniformity between modes within the state as well as state to state by establishing the mode split.....geez
this is/was strictly an "accommodation" for some of the special interests that some of them are beholden to who have decided that they have no interest in participating in any reduction willingly...
the second reason that followed was that enforcement would be easier with uniform regs state to state...
HUH??? for the above reasons coupled with the fact that it's well known that enforcement barely exists as it is...little or no enforcement of Fed waters fishing and inshore/onshore as well ....the illegal harvest and sale of stripers and other species is rampant.....striped bass is on the menu in restaurants throughout the state during the season and very little of it is bought through legal fish merchants....one of several worst kept secrets in RI....
bottom line is that their stated rationale for recommending the mode spits was very weak.....we should let them know this through letters and emails....I'll post a comprehensive list tomorrow of all of the folks that should be bombarded....hopefully after the "BIG GAME" and during the next storm tomorrow folks will have time to fire off a note .....