Likwid, I plan to put more cod in the freezer because I allready buy alot for my family to eat, but within the rec limits...
Flatts - I think you were too litteral there, the commercial license is for fish that legally must be sold at the market, not for keeps. As for license in a boat, I think everyone fishing needs the license but there is still a limit of 40 per boat.
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For good or ill, the concensus seems to be that there is squat money to be made selling SB. Economically speaking this is either because there is too much supply driving the price down OR there is not enough demand to support a higher price. It seems clear that the problem here is really on the DEMAND side. I say this because otherwise, there would be some sort of outcry not to shutdown the comm season tomorrow because businesses (restaurants, grocers, etc) would be significanty hurt.
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I don't think ANY commercial fisherman can make any kind of a living fishing for stripers, not in New England. Many of these people would ordinarily fish for something else concurrent with fishing for bass or for some species at different times of the year. There is also a lot of people that get the license to offset their fishing costs (which only go up if they're trying to get a bunch of fish) and others get a license, even though they don't sell fish, to prove they are a traditional license holder in case licenses are no longer offered or are curtailed. I'm not sure but I think that already you need to have already had a striped bass comm license in order to get one - Anyone know if new people were still able to apply and receive licenses this year?