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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
How many of you actaully sent in your catch results of tuna fishing EACH DAY YOU WENT? You are suppose to within 24 hours of fishing. I am calling the feds on you. 
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People SHOULD even if some don't. The catch reports help track where the fish are (for better enforcement) as well as how agressively any given age class is being fished. Catch reports are given to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. All our regulations and size restrictions are based on them.
You can even do it online. People should respect this incredible (and vulnerable) fishery. This fish isn't a scup or some other fast breeding, boring fish. What happened last year off of RI wasn't even remotely normal. People think I'm joking when I say it was probably once in a lifetime. Hopefully it will happen again. Better regulation will increase the chances of it.