Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Massive isolated schools of fish and the experience of a select few are not an even remotely valid indicator of the health of a fish who's range is in excess of 1000 miles of shore and 100's of thousands of square miles of ocean.
I've said it before... didn't there used to be a time when the fish were everywhere? I think Mike P said it, "it's not how the fishing is in the middle of their range, it's the worsening of the fishing towards the outside of its range." A contraction of range points to a decrease in the stocks.
|
The outer ranges are much more weather / temp dependent, simple as that, plus their seasons are much shorter... People fish temp breaks offshore, you think different applies for other fish? The best bites this year were early and late, it was when people ended the season it started. When many started the best went by.....Hell we were just getting started in December! Many states are disasters with their bait management and wonder why the fish arent there. The fish still are just about everywhere, the big schools, found EVERYDAY, are with the massive amounts of bait. Nowhere else do these fish get pounded as hard as in northern central jersey out east long island, yet the fish arent wiped out here, 100's, thousands caught every day for a much longer season span... Why is it that every Pogie boat from Mass down from NC, VA is coming up netting pogies off NJ? Yet they are not allowed within 1.2 miles of shoreline. You guys have those boats wipe out the bays, Harbors!