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Originally Posted by CowHunter
Nobody ever asked me for a catch report in Mass or NJ, nor ANYBODY else I know. The Rec catch is MUCH Higher. You know the Comm catch probably within 10% = / -. Mass is 10 Percent of comm catch coast wide. Stick with stripersforever, let em take away the com catch and give it to VA / MD / NC, no pin hookin there boys, gill netting or haul siegning much more fun. Nobody gives a rats ass about the comm guy in LI thats been breaking every law and making his own comm catch! Beat every case, give the quata to him.Either way, they shut mass down dont make a difference. My clients want dead fish! Im gonn kill the same 25-30k lbs or so Every season up and down the coast from April to January. Get range rover driving shmucks to make the rules, I know, change it to 20 inch cause then they can catch too with rhir fly rods. Regs stay the way they are they will never catch... Next Tuna4ever, Tog4ever, Fluke4ever, make em' all gamefish! Ban all commercial! Bunch of clowns writing 100 letters that spend 2 days on the water a season, inherited dadys money and have nothging better to do! Dont know what it is to work 4 a living, go pay 1K for an orvis guy to put em on fish!
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I take offense to your post. I bust my hump every day of my life. I own my own business and go in day after day after day even when I don't feel well. And I do not sit behind a desk and I have no inheritance. And I have not paid any one to put me on to fish. I surf fish at times when most are sleeping. I put in my time and don't expect any one to hand anything to me. And by the way my chevy pick up has 190,000 miles on it and is my only vehicle
Your argument basically states that since other states can still have commercial fishing and that other comm's break the law then it's okay for everyone to do that. Come on man, at least be responsible.
Rec's may catch more fish but they kill far fewer. I dare say that 100% of the fish caught commercially are killed. Recreational fishermen kill very few of their catch....maybe 10% nationwide. For me it's 0% as I release them all....but that's just me. Plus rec's provide much more $$ for the economy than do comm's.
Personally I don't want to see any one's livelihood taken away but I feel saving the stock is more important than a few dollars. And don't call me a treehugger 'cause I am not. But without steps being taken to save the species it will be lost and then nothing will be left for anybody and the comm's will just move on to another species for their clients.
And again, I re-iterate that this is just one step in the right direction. The other is to stop the dragging for menhaden