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Originally Posted by Sashamy
if you charter and get the letter you are exempt from commercial fishing for groundfish for one year....no more ninety day clause been like that for 4 years or so...
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You are wrong!
The letter goes From May 1st - April 30th. You can get out of the program after being in it after 90 days. You can not get out in 30 days nor 60 days and not 89 days.
For those of us that charter. If you bottom charter you have to decide which is best for you to get the LOA to be able to fish in the closed areas. You are actually punished when you get this letter especially who ever fish below the 4230 line. June 1st you can start commercial fishing below the 4230. If you put your boat in May without the letter you will be able to fish below the 4230 line, so why would you get the letter.
The 4230 line starts at or around Marblehead Neck and goes just north of half way rock out to 1-2miles above the south side of Stellwagon.
Check out
http://mapserver.mytopo.com You will see this mark (+) just off of Marble Head follow it east across Stellwagon.