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BasicPatrick · 03-15-2003, 01:18 AM

Mr Sandman,

I am a member of the SB Advisory Panel and we were snowed out 2 weeks in a row. We meet next thursday. Following that meeting, DMF will release the options for 2003 to go out to public hearing. There will be three public hearings. MSBA will host one on April 17 at 7pm at the Viking club. there will be two others that week...one near the Cape and one on the North Shore.

Information I have collected through informal talks with other members of the Advisory Panel has lead me to the following expectations. Not that I agree with all I am posting here.

It looks like there will be a significant increase in the commercial Quota. Hopefully it will not be the full amount that is allowed under Ammenment 6. It looks like there will be support for a Commercial daily bag limit reduction from 40 to 25 fish per day. I also expect to hear that the elimination of the non-resident comm
license for SB (that had some support last winter) will be announced to be illegal.

On the recreational side of things, you can pretty much count on 2 fish per day. There is a movement amongst some of us to try and get a slot of some sort considered. I, on behalf of MSBA have been pushing for 1 fish 28-40 and 1 over 40 for almost a year. There is another slot I have heard, that would be 2 fish over 28", 1 over 40. The theory behind this is that all year classes younger that 1993 are the strongest on record, going back to at least 1950. the fish from 1993 and older (40 + inches)are from some of the weakest year classes ever reported. Add this to the fact that 40 or so per cent of all the SB under 36 inches are males that do not ever grow larger than 36/38 inches and you see where the concern to prevent the incresed harvest from doing more damage to the last of the weak year classes is coming from.

As I stated earlier, this is what I see coming, not nescessarily what I agree with. It would be nice to get some intelligent discussion on this subject going on the boards

As far as EEZ is concerned, ASFMC voted last month to officially request that the NMFS open the EEZ to SB Fishing. IF NMFS decides to consider doing this it would have to go out to public hearing and input first. Paul Diodati has stated many times that he is in favor of the opening. Looking ahead, ther is the possibility that the opening could be left up to each individual state. But that is a way down the road.

03-15-2003, 01:18 AM	#2
BasicPatrick M.S.B.A. iTrader: (0) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA Posts: 2,795	Mr Sandman, I am a member of the SB Advisory Panel and we were snowed out 2 weeks in a row. We meet next thursday. Following that meeting, DMF will release the options for 2003 to go out to public hearing. There will be three public hearings. MSBA will host one on April 17 at 7pm at the Viking club. there will be two others that week...one near the Cape and one on the North Shore. Information I have collected through informal talks with other members of the Advisory Panel has lead me to the following expectations. Not that I agree with all I am posting here. It looks like there will be a significant increase in the commercial Quota. Hopefully it will not be the full amount that is allowed under Ammenment 6. It looks like there will be support for a Commercial daily bag limit reduction from 40 to 25 fish per day. I also expect to hear that the elimination of the non-resident comm license for SB (that had some support last winter) will be announced to be illegal. On the recreational side of things, you can pretty much count on 2 fish per day. There is a movement amongst some of us to try and get a slot of some sort considered. I, on behalf of MSBA have been pushing for 1 fish 28-40 and 1 over 40 for almost a year. There is another slot I have heard, that would be 2 fish over 28", 1 over 40. The theory behind this is that all year classes younger that 1993 are the strongest on record, going back to at least 1950. the fish from 1993 and older (40 + inches)are from some of the weakest year classes ever reported. Add this to the fact that 40 or so per cent of all the SB under 36 inches are males that do not ever grow larger than 36/38 inches and you see where the concern to prevent the incresed harvest from doing more damage to the last of the weak year classes is coming from. As I stated earlier, this is what I see coming, not nescessarily what I agree with. It would be nice to get some intelligent discussion on this subject going on the boards As far as EEZ is concerned, ASFMC voted last month to officially request that the NMFS open the EEZ to SB Fishing. IF NMFS decides to consider doing this it would have to go out to public hearing and input first. Paul Diodati has stated many times that he is in favor of the opening. Looking ahead, ther is the possibility that the opening could be left up to each individual state. But that is a way down the road.
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