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beaver · 12-10-2009, 11:32 AM

Don't attack me guys I'm just curious, and haven't read the other 240 something posts in this thread. Without protection could our bass population end up like our cod population has? Although cod have made a tiny comeback, and warming water temps have an effect on them moving further north or offshore, they were seriously over fished. It was only 20 or 30 years ago that they could be caught in the canal, from Hull Gut, and other shore places. Global warming, maybe, over fishing def.

I really have no facts though. As a kid growing up we would take the boat out, inside Boston Light and catch all the cod we could want, now, not so much. Just what I think. Don't want to take this thread off topic, just curious if that would ever happen. I wasn't alive for the moratorium, and I don't want to be alive for any moratorium.

12-10-2009, 11:32 AM	#249
beaver Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: N. Shore MA Posts: 271	Don't attack me guys I'm just curious, and haven't read the other 240 something posts in this thread. Without protection could our bass population end up like our cod population has? Although cod have made a tiny comeback, and warming water temps have an effect on them moving further north or offshore, they were seriously over fished. It was only 20 or 30 years ago that they could be caught in the canal, from Hull Gut, and other shore places. Global warming, maybe, over fishing def. I really have no facts though. As a kid growing up we would take the boat out, inside Boston Light and catch all the cod we could want, now, not so much. Just what I think. Don't want to take this thread off topic, just curious if that would ever happen. I wasn't alive for the moratorium, and I don't want to be alive for any moratorium.