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Agreed Ron that's why I never take fish ever. Plenty of guys take mine home. Like I said I feel the ultimate end game for SB is gamefish but Rec's need to slow down before we can ask commercial guys to make wholesale changes on how they live their lives.
One thing I will say for SF is they were willing to compromise in the last round of hearings. They were willing to change their proposed legislation to include verbiage to allow commercial fisherman who gain a pct, if their overall income to Maintain a commercial license.
I cut my chops during the end of the moratorium. I don't go back to the "glory days" I look to other people I trust who have been out there longer than I, like yourself and John to provide me with a balanced look on where we were where we are and where we are headed. I can't trust an organization like the ASMFC to provide me with accurate reporting. When one yoy is applauded as a great triumph and the next is dismissed due to weather or who knows what?
I have been around enough to know we are on a decline. Even the ASMFC's numbers dictate that.
For people to say that all the bass are outside the three mile limit is bush IMHO I feel they were there before. I can't say that for a fact? But I would venture a guess that they were in and offshore in previous years.
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