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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
To me it remains a fish grab for stripers with those groups, whether they push for bag limit or not. WE (recs; I'm not commercial) HAVE NO MORE right to the fish than the commercials do.
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That's where we part company. How can you justify that statement? If recreational striper fishermen outnumber commercial fishermen 600 to 1, and they do) than the resource should be divided that way: 99%+ to the recs and the balance to the commercials. Anyone would then say, "let's round it up to 100%."
Why shouldn't I be allowed to kill and sell black ducks and geese with, say, a daily limit of 10 each? How about brook trout? I know a place where I can easliy catch a couple dozen a day. Why can't I do that and sell them to the local restaurants?. Well there's a couple of reasons. First, I could kill or catch that game and fish because there is no commercial season which has allowed the populations to expand to current levels; and second, because those critters belong to all of us, not just to em and a few buddies.
We're not talking about monkfish or hake, we're talking about the single most sought after fish on the East coast. You want to call it a grab? OK, it's a grab and it couldn't be fairer. Of course the recs kill more fish; there are millions of them.