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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
How does it create jobs if those 1Mil people are already fishing for stripers at least once a year??? Is it suddenly going to be 2mil? then bass have even more to worry about....
I don't trust any organization that 1-sided, but SF is on my scares me list...
1 fish 36"
Period.
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Do you trust ASMFC to do the job. I will be very surprised if they don't increase the commercial quota by 25% soon. It was a tie vote at the last meeting but there are more states that allow commerical fishing then don't, so it is just a matter of time. If you look at the last meeting minutes the commercial interest were saying 50% increase would be reasonable.
Even if the commercial quota is increased to 10 million pound how many jobs do you think that really leads to. A good percentage of the commercial catch comes from people who are really not commercial fisherman, there picking up a few bucks to pay for gas or their boat. From a full time stand point this catch would be lucky if it created 500 jobs total.
I agree that we should reduce the limit for recreational fisherman. The purpose of the slot limit is mainly to add male fish to the catch since they usually don't go above 30". Once we get the license system in place I would like to see a 1 fish slot and when you get your license you get two trophy tags for fish over 40". Or something like that.