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[QUOTE=Mike P;606618]Gamefish status without a slot limit, or something better than 2 at 28" is elevating symbolism ahead of substance.
Commercials kill 6 million pounds coastwide, per year. Recs are estimated to kill about 28-30 million. No one really knows how much is really harvested by recs. All gamefish will do is save those 6 million pounds from being recorded as dead--it won't do a damn thing to save them from being dead.
It also won't do a damn thing about by-catch.
Go out to the BB bouy in the fall and you will see some (dead) bycatch!
And all those large dead bass are just left floating for shark bait.
Every year the same crap !
Guys on internet boards piss & moan once the commercial season starts,
But more bass are killed in those nets out at the BB in days compared to the whole commercial season quota!
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