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From the Oxford American dictionary
Commercial ( adjective )
1. Concerned with or engaged in commerce.
2. Making or intended to make a profit.
(a) Having profit, rather than artistic or other value, as a
primary aim:
It is rather obvious that we should break the accountability take pie
into thirds.
Commercial. ( selling fish )
Charter / Headboats . ( selling fishing )
Recreational.
I work some weekends as a mate on a Charter boat out of Green harbor. The general theme is a keep everything meat fishing trip. The whole attitude is to fill the box.
A far cry from most ( not all ) people that I know when they are out fishing for enjoyment.
No way it's an either or , now you would be just arguing semantics.
But this is all a mute point to our collective ignorance to the future of this fishery. The plenty of now does not mean the plenty of tomorrow.
Hell, just look at the state of our Country and economy. Aren't we all just looking around wondering " what happened ? It was so good not long ago, "
You can definitely draw some parallels to striped bass fishing, once this large biomass out there now is gone we may be in trouble.
The deterioration of the estuarine nursery may not bode well for all of us, who for work or play, pursue this fish. As I said earlier it now takes 3 times the breeders to produce the same YOY as it did 20 years ago.Something is very wrong.
Get involved.
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