[flatts1]

Wow. It is truly amazing (and scary) how gullable members of Stripers Forever can be.

Ol Pajamas, I'm sorry to have to point this out to you and all of the other Brad Burns groupies out there but the article you posted makes a collasal leap to assuming the nets were set for stripers (there are other fish in the sea) All it really said was that there are presumably illegal gill nets set in the water.

Now I don't think that you will get an argument from anyone that this sort of practice (assuming it is true) is loathful and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent to the law (ditto for rec offenses)

However, to somehow make a connection that this activity is leading to "enormous kill" of stripers is yet another misleading and irresponsible attempt by Stripers Forever to make a case against commercial harvest of striped bass when they simply do not have real facts to make their case.

Further more even if striped bass were the target fish of these netters then these fish would still go against the commercial quota whne they were sold at shore. In other words, this would only affect other commercial fishermen by forcing the price down for stripers and closing the season earlier than expected.

Ol Pajamas, please review the following graph and when you're done wincing please explain to me again why commercial fishermen are the single greatest threat to striped bass (please try to include pertinent facts if possible).

Also, I may be going out on a limb here but I think that maybe this is the sort of thing that JohnR had in mind when he said that Stripers Forever was all about "gimme gimme gimme".

I agree. What a shame too because instead of focusing effort into sustainable uses, Stripers Forever only seeks sole uses. That Sir, by another name is truly called - greed.

Sincerely,
Mike Flaherty
Quincy, MA

P.S.
That's my real name what's yours?