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JudgeJP did not mention if it was a commercial saltwater license buyback. I know that's how they've eliminated/lessened some commercial fishing in the past - by buying back the comm licenses and not issuing new ones. It's form of attrition. Even die hards, die eventually, and their license becomes non transferable.
Within 20 years, fish that were once commercially viable, achieve defacto gamefish status - without the big uproar if one year they declared stripers as gamefish coast-wide. They prefer it to end not with a bang, but a whimper.
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