Responding to Patrick:
1.) OK
2.) (More for Flatts) It is entirely illegal NOT to sell the fish you catch when commercial fishing for stripers. All fish caught MUST go to an authorized market. If you're good enough to catch 20 or 40 keepers in just one day, as a rec, you couldn't fit them in your freezer anyway. If anyone is considering poaching bass...
3) Good to know
4) Pat - grins & giggles - know how many off the top of your head?
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the thought is that mosty recs will care about the fishery as opposed to what we have seen in more mainstream commercial fisheries
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Pat, do you mean that recs that are comm SB license holders will care more than comm fisherman that are not traditionally a "rec" fisherman (I probably coulda used better wording but I have a headache)?
6) I have gone to a couple meetings that had a segment on striped bass(not in the last 2 years) and yes, there were hardly any recreational anglers there. Far more showed in Rhody meetings than the 1 Mass meeting I had been to (several years ago - hard to go to meetings when I hardly get out to fish
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7) Patrick - I lost you there, what are you refering too?
Here is the link to the meetings Patrick is referring to:
http://www.state.ma.us/dfwele/dmf/Ma...c_hearings.pdf