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While I tend to feel gamefish is the ultimate end game
For bass I don't think Stripers Forever wins many fans with their hard line on it. There are too many ways for people to poke holes in their logic. Number one their is no way to re allocate commercial fish to conservation per current management regulations. Sounds good but it just doesn't work that way.
Second I feel they should first advocate for recreational mortality reduction with no increase to commercial quotas. If recreational fishermen (which I am) are to tell others how to manage their fishing they need to look in the mirror first. Stop the talk of slot limits and managing the fishery in a bubble. If x happens then y and z will be perfect. We have a litmus test for what worked in the past to boost stocks why re invent the wheel. Recs need to go back to one a day. It is unfortunate for those that fish once a year on a charter but when they realize that a boat with10 people or more on it goes out twice a day two bass a piece times 100 trips a year that adds up to a lot of fish. The heads have little invested in the fishery and more than likely will not miss the fish when they are potentially gone.
Maybe I am wrong but I feel this issue needs to be looked at on so many levels other than Rec vs. comm.
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