At last nights MSBA meeting, Fisherwoman's buddy
- The President FlymanPat - told me before the meeting and announced in the meeting that, in an interesting turn of events, The New England Fisheries Management Council has decided not to implement or recommend any of the 8 management plans that they had to choose from in order to acheive the mandated reduction in the groundfish fisheries.
He attended yesterday's and Monday's meetings where several options in the commercial/recreational groundfish management plan could require a reduction of 6.66666% of the allowable daily bag limit. So, instead of 10 per day, you could keep A Whole Three Fish!!!. So after years of running down that fishery, the recreational sector would also need to take a big hit - not that that was the cause for the decline.
Well, The New England Fisheries Management Council, in refusing to put any plan on the table, chose not to make a decision and the government will now probably be required to make the changes for the Gulf of Maine/George's Bank regions.
Basically, the Council felt that it could not recommend a plan that would essentially cut the throat of the commercial groundfish fishermen even though there have been far more than warning signs of this for well over a decade now. It appears that the Council feels the government should take the necessary steps instead of the council (at least that's my take from what I'm hearing).
So now the government will need to make the recommendations for 2002 and then present those to public hearing (or just implement them).
I'll post more when I find more...
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If you can't catch Cod legally, you must buy them. Can you say MONOPOLY!
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