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Fly Rod · 02-28-2004, 09:17 AM

The biggest part of commercial pogie fishing is down off New Jersey, south for around these parts and they are just as abundent as herring are up here. As for up this way there are only about 6 commercial licenses. They use to fish Boston Harbor,and allot of areas here. For the small amount of pogies up here does not make it fesible to fish commercially. Lot of them pogies From Jersey get shipped up this way for lobsta bait,mainly Maine. Maine lobsta men seem to prefer pogies
Stripe bassers basically do not benifit from pogies from the gulf of Mexico or from the southern states.

Also when I said name 6 that do fish commercially I didn't mean in the whole world. Go from Rhode Island, North.

And when I say "YOU" I mean plural.

I agree that it should be a shared resouce.
It was the recreational guys that wanted the 36" limit lowered.
I would rather see it at 36" up & down the coast. I wish that they never changed it
We are all recs until that 3-4 week season!!!!

02-28-2004, 09:17 AM	#25
Fly Rod Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Gloucester Massachusetts Posts: 2,678	The biggest part of commercial pogie fishing is down off New Jersey, south for around these parts and they are just as abundent as herring are up here. As for up this way there are only about 6 commercial licenses. They use to fish Boston Harbor,and allot of areas here. For the small amount of pogies up here does not make it fesible to fish commercially. Lot of them pogies From Jersey get shipped up this way for lobsta bait,mainly Maine. Maine lobsta men seem to prefer pogies Stripe bassers basically do not benifit from pogies from the gulf of Mexico or from the southern states. Also when I said name 6 that do fish commercially I didn't mean in the whole world. Go from Rhode Island, North. And when I say "YOU" I mean plural. I agree that it should be a shared resouce. It was the recreational guys that wanted the 36" limit lowered. I would rather see it at 36" up & down the coast. I wish that they never changed it We are all recs until that 3-4 week season!!!! Last edited by Fly Rod; 02-28-2004 at 09:19 AM..