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Originally Posted by buckman
You have no way of telling if the options that are on the table are going to create any havoc except for maybe here. ! Your emotions are getting the best of you��
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it's got nothing to do with emotion Buck, you can dismiss it that way but the...
Chairman of the ASMFC pleaded with the participants and the end of the meeting in Alexandria for simple and consistent measures and further urged neighboring states to work together toward that end, this after...
The Law Enforcement folks urged and recommended simple and consistent regulations as the most effective measures regarding enforcement and angler compliance, this after....
the Science community urged simple and consistent regulations which would result in better data collection and further stated that mode splits and slot limits negatively affect the data and result in less reliable numbers, this after,,,
RI announced at their meeting prior to the ASMFC meeting that the reason option#2 was necessary was eliminate the possibility of "havoc" on the water..."we can't have boats fishing next to other boats under different regulations" that was out of the mouth of the Charter Rep Bellevance....I asked....."you will have boats fishing next to boats under different regulations..lots of them"....his response after much consternation was "I should have said, within the mode".....he meant..within the mode(for hire) and between states, ignoring that "within the state between modes" he was creating an even bigger problem numbers wise ....."havoc" to accommodate the above mentioned "
who claim they will lose interest in the fishery during their occasional trips to the state if they can't kill two bass(or have the perception of the ability to do so I guess) and for that reason we should create an exception for the entire sector creating all sorts of havoc"
of course now...ironically...we have RI heading for a mode split...Mass leaning heavily 1@ all modes as well as CT and am I hearing NY?
talk about looking like fools....
what exactly is your evidence that it won't cause problems?
btw...an addition to the option#2 language for RI was mandatory reporting
check out this article regarding reporting by NY and others
"NMFS estimates that anglers fishing from for-hire boats in the State of New York landed
234,650 striped bass in 2014. At the same time, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reports that Vessel Trip Reports filled out by the state’s party and charter boats say that just
12,309 striped bass—
a mere five percent of the landings estimated by NMFS—were landed by their customers in that year.
http://oneanglersvoyage.blogspot.com/