a guy at a local tackle shop explained it to me this way : we are at the northern most point of the birds' travels, yet we suffer the extreme consequences. the long island area is/was a hot bed for the bird, but now they are all but extinct there. so up here, we get clobbered on these regs.
i say, this is just the way they(the environmentalist wackos)want it. they don't want us on the beach
lain and simple. and they will stop at nothing to get us off.