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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
I never said anything about creating a Charter quota.
With regards to that joke of a report from ASMFC, did you go to meeting in Dedham? The meeting where the girl presenting the information admitted that their stock assessment doesn't include mortality from myco or poaching because they "can't put an exact number on it" and are still "trying to figure out an effective way to model it."
The ASMFC stock assessments are a shame. On top of that, current assessments combined with their projected stock assessments show a declining trend in Striped Bass Abundance - and that's without including mortality from myco and poaching. How much worse are the updated assessments going to be and how much steeper of a declining trend will show when these numbers are included?
As one of my PoliSci professors said to our class back in college, "There is no point in referencing the results from a poll to support your argument, if the data from that poll is flawed."
ASMFC creates these nice elaborate charts, powerpoint presentations and holds these hearings demonstrating the health of the stocks based on data that they know is inaccurate. The girl at the meeting tried to avoid blatantly stating this a number of times.
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What is not considered is that chaos is job security for a government agency. For example... we could all sit back with a few glasses of scotch and hash out the solution to fix all of the fishery problems in a night- force the implications over a few month and the problem is solved. What a goverment worker never wants to admit is that if they complete their job quickly and solve the problem, they are in effect out of a job. Its not like the hunt for the cure for cancer, where the person is rewarded heavily for his or her findings.... the day that NOAA and ASFMC actually solve all these issues will be the day that 50% of the staff wont have any more work to do. Its all a game and an illusion... or at least thats the way I see it.