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Originally Posted by MakoMike
According to the original posting: "At a November 9, 2005business meeting, the Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission (MFAC) approved several Division of Marine Fisheries (MarineFisheries) proposals including a two-year seasonal cod prohibition in a portion of Massachusetts Bay and a three-year moratorium on the harvest, possession, and sale of river herring."
If that wording is correct, the indians won't have any shops to sell to.
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Exactly.
There have been several herring management/ban threads posted over the last couple of months, and in every one, someone mentions that people from a state with a ban will take herring in a state that doesn't have one, or mentions the Native American Indian exemption issue. What sometimes seems to be missed is the fact that even if a person obtains herring legally in one state, it would still be illegal to possess that fish in a state With a ban. I think one problem is that poachers, by thier very nature, ignore/violate bans, laws, rules, and regs, and are willing to do things like take herring illegally, or possess short scup in the livewell. I will certainly obey any and all such regs, first, because I don't want to face the consequences, but also because it should improve the resource down the road.