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Originally Posted by Eben
The boat owners would have to self police themselves I guess  All I am saying is that if you take that privilige away from them, most will cheat the system anyway and sell direct. |
I don't see cheating getting less if dockside sales are not touched.
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as for herring i am under the impresion that river/bluebacks hang out and party with atlantic sea herring.. how is a trawler going to know what fish is what on the 'blippah' and not scoop up the wrong species....
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That's my impression too but I was hoping for some real concrete (or semi-concrete) information if possible...
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i hate to say it but i would not be suprised to see 'no fishing zones' like they have in california happen out here. if you cant regulate, simply shut it down until you have a good enough recovery.
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I don't want to see no fishing zones. If you get a no fishing zone its likely to stay no fishing. What I would support is closing areas to specific gear types with predefined steps to reopen a particular area. So if scup was hammered in Buzzards Bay (yeh right) and it was determined the prime spawning area, you could close the area to say comm and rec suppin' but still rod & reel for bass. Say that it was determined that every year the herring move from the ocean inshore in January thru March, you close off the area to pair trawls. Or you have a prime cod spawning ground during a three month window, it gets closed too so that the more extreme pressure is not applied at the most critical time for the species. I dunno, seems simple to me, I don't see why it can't be applied (other than the occasional and tradition fox guarding henhouse fisheries managment councils)...