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bluzjamer · 04-27-2006, 09:56 AM

Hi,
I live and fish in R.I.. The herring issue is the same here also. I don't mind not being able to get some river herring and going fishing but It's a double standard again. The rod and reelers have to give something up, do you think the trawlers will?
Commercial fisheries will still deplete the herring like the did in all the years before. I can't even use last years herring I still have in the freezer, I know I asked. With $3 a gallon gas and no herring I might as well store the fishing gear until 2008.
Another nail into the economic coffin.
I fish other ways but for keepers I use bait. Eels at $2 ea. no thanks.
The only reason I bought a freshwater fishing license was to take herring, how about a refund R.I.?

04-27-2006, 09:56 AM	#2
bluzjamer Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2002 Location: Warwick Posts: 163	My $.02 to Cape Cod Online Hi, I live and fish in R.I.. The herring issue is the same here also. I don't mind not being able to get some river herring and going fishing but It's a double standard again. The rod and reelers have to give something up, do you think the trawlers will? Commercial fisheries will still deplete the herring like the did in all the years before. I can't even use last years herring I still have in the freezer, I know I asked. With $3 a gallon gas and no herring I might as well store the fishing gear until 2008. Another nail into the economic coffin. I fish other ways but for keepers I use bait. Eels at $2 ea. no thanks. The only reason I bought a freshwater fishing license was to take herring, how about a refund R.I.?