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Actually, Freak, I don't think I disagree with you at all, except maybe on what the effect of F2F would be.
I don't think there's any need for a full closure of any part of Massachusetts waters. Let the comms and the regulators fight it out about trip limits or days at sea or whatever else it takes to adjust the size of the harvest to the ability of the stock to recover. If they're fishing longlines or probably even gill nets they're not trashing the habitat, just killing fish. I kill fish, too.
I do think we need to close large areas to bottom dragging, and the closures need to last years.
I see F2F as a roadblock to getting that done.
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