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And at the same time, the sale price of fish keeps the number of commercial striper fishers down.
Nobody wants to be pulling 2 or 3 bucks a pound for 40 fish in one night.
Been commercial tuna fishing for a couple years now, and it when it comes down to the end of the season up here, you're in reality not doing so well as non-commercial people would like think.
You almost need to be out every damn day working your ass off fishing to make real money.
If you want a real experience and an opportunity to badmouth commercial fisheries, go out on a commercial lobster boat for a run some time.
Its far more work than you can ever imagine. Yeah, they have haulers, but they don't take lobster out, gauge them, throw them in the bin or over the side, rebait, and get set to reset. Then repeat 200 more times. And never mind doing this during the winter, or dealing with conger eels, sandsharks and whatever else just happens to meander into your traps.
$2400 average per person on bass isn't much for the season, do some random figures on fuel costs, bait costs, time cost, etc. and you'll see the majority was under for the season.
Now I'll guarantee that nobody was fishing stripers exclusively commercially, if they were, well then, they're pretty damn stupid at those figures.
Cheers
Ted
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