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Old 05-14-2005, 02:54 PM   #11
JohnR
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Originally Posted by Eben
as far as boat sales go, i think it should stay the same... my reasoning is that boat sales are the only time a guy can sell his fish at retail prices ( or at least above wholesale) givin the tight restrictions on finfish catches, at least allow the guys to get a fair price for their catch.
One problem with selling as Goosefish alluded to above is that the species that are regulated with quotas need a centralized accounting like the wholesalers. Yeh, I would like to see some of the guys make more dough instead of slaving to the wholesaler's whim but how would you account for quotas?
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Herring pens- IMO pens are .0006% of the problem.. its the herring fleeet. why not regulate them. ????
Does anyone have any real hard data that the "Sea" herring boats are not catching loads of river/bluebacks as bycatch?

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