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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
Dogfish stink. IMO the DMF has no idea what they are doing. Clearly they do not actually get out there and fish themselves. They need to STOP reading bad science reports, leave their desks and wet a line. If you put bait on the bottom in the waters between MV and ACK you will catch 90%+ dogfish.
The dogfish males are clearly finding the dogfish females...who cares if some bonehead grad student or wannabe research scientist can find them. Come fishing with me I can make you sick of the species within one day and have you give up bottom fishing forever....People are all ready not wanting to go bottom fishing because of the dogsfish, this is a bad sign and certainly not good for the fishing related economies.
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Sandy -- Without the grad students and research scientists, we'd have no concrete information on fish species, nothing on which to base management. Part of management is politics, so it won't always seem like it's based on good science, even though it may be available. I agree that something needs to be done about the overabundance of dogfish, but insulting those people that work for your fisheries is probably not the way to go. I've done some pretty good research, I feel, and I know that when I get into upper level fisheries management, my decisions will be based on ecology, sociology, and economy. Maybe the older managers haven't been trained well, but I know that I and my colleagues that I went to school with and the people that we learned from have a pretty good handle on things.