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Chuck Casella has something in the spray this month. Fishing mortality lowered from.31 to .30. The threshold will increase from .38 to .41. Rec side maintaining the current 2 fish at 28". He says Mass will keep their 1 at 28" in place. The commercials are going to 100 percent of historical landings based on the average years 1972-1979. This equates to a 30 percent increase. The following issues were tabled Opening the EEZ to allow fishing out to 12 miles. That was initiated and supported by Mass DMF. Also tabled was establishing a coastwide biologically based limit Also tabled was the actual implementation of Ammendment 6. These things were tabled till the Febuary board meeting.
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