Two things is all they need to fix.
1) Separate divisions for shore/boat. I'll take my chances against a shore bound commercial pinhooker
2) Freeze club entries 30 days into the tournament, to prevent someone from staring up a club just for the commercial season.
As far as the "kill" aspect of it goes, I'll bet there were less than 500 fish entered. I did a rough count of all of the 30-57 pound fish entered and it was right around 300. Many clubs had a "nothing under 30" rule for their members. That's for a tourney that stetched from Maine to NJ and ran almost 5 months. Compare that to the numbers entered in the MV Derby, for one month, and I think you'll see that the OTW wasn't the "striper slaughter" that some people on other websites think it was