[QUOTE=CowHunter;728380 Well You should know by now, Everything is blamed on commercials!!![/QUOTE]
That's not true. Anyone who is even remotely informed knows this isn't the case. Even with the abuses of the Mass commercial fishery it doesn't take a big stretch to realize the rec harvest is way out of control.
My biggest problem with the Mass commercial is we allow out of staters to get licenses and take our allocation... ice fishing and other illegal/shady practices abound too. Just due to the fact there's a place to sell or transport 30 fish at a time invites all this stuff. The taking of 1 million pounds of fish is a much lesser problem to me as its a small number of the total fish harvested coastwide.
If we implement a one fish per day rec season along with a daily limit of,say, six fish daily for charter operations, it will go a long way. Make the recs fish under the slot limit and the commercial will take care of itself. People will still abuse the commercial regardless, but its the recs we need to cut back.
In addition, we can still nuke New Jersey if its warranted...
