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Originally Posted by Redsoxticket
There are offshore boats in "federal" waters that are harvesting non endangered atlantic herring. However, the river herring are a bycatch of the atlantic herring and those boats will be exempt from selling there bycatch of river herring to the markets. These boats are probably the biggest culprits of decline of the herring. The federal limits should be extended further out.
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ive heard from a few people that the bycatch numbers are very small, like 1-3%. the two species are different and do not school together.