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Originally Posted by Sashamy
Johnny
You sure know how to speak out of both sides of your mouth! You said in some other posts that commercial fishing sucks...now you turn around and say it can exist but us greedy commercial fishermen are going to ruin it????I was merely being funny because SF kept saying they weren't anti commercial yet they keep trying to shut it down like it is the pariah causing the problem! It is not the problem! It does exist now with a f@#$ing limit! Get the f@#k over it! When the limit is caught the season is over and then most people go back to recreational or charter fishing anyway and you know what the slaughter continues. Commercial bass fishing does not hurt the population as much as recreational fishing! Fly rods kill fish, bait fishermen kill fish, wire lining kills fish, pcb and toxins kill fish, catch and release practices kill fish! The only way to save them is to make them a pet, lets domesticate them and feed them herring like a dolphin trainer would ast sea world. Get off your %$%$%$%$ing high horse and stop blaming MA DMF and commercial fishing for a collapse that happened 30 years ago...it was not Massachusetts fault that epa regs were not very strict just as it was not the guy keeping the 16 inch fish's fault! Matt Patrick is a #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, he really thinks that 2400 people are bringing numbers of uncounted bass home to eat...this whole thing is atrocious and unreasonable.
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Thank you for reaffirming my point on how people like you are the reason respectable R&R commercial guys get a bad rap. Pretty much everything I posted about, you've supported.
First off, I keep very few fish (2 last year, and both were bleeding heavily when they got to shore) nor buy fish at market. As such, a no-take fishery is most beneficial to *me*. I've been pretty consistent in stating that. Also like I said in my above post, commercial fishing is not viable given our current system and until that system changes, it will continue to not be viable. Until the system is fixed, commercial fishing should go away *along* with severely decreased limits on recs - because, yes, both are to blame. You say that we shouldn't consider a collapse that happened 30 years ago, but you've obviously never heard the saying "those who choose to ignore the past are destined to repeat it."
Second, in the second line I bolded, you're admitting that given the current state of the striped bass, they can't be saved. Which again reaffirms my point that you're one of those commercial guys that wants to exploit the seas for everything that it can give up until it is completely depleted.
I guess my analogy about
if you were a logger, you'd clear cut every forest possible was dead on. The unnecessary swearing at me doesn't help your point either.