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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
I stay away from these threads because I dont have the answer or suggestions on this topic, If I had my way, they would be gamefish. However, the video is terrible. All the speakers have their livelihoods tied to the sucess of stripers which makes it extremely biased. I dont mean to be overly cynical but you can easily reword to say "please limit striped bass kill so I can continue to make money off the fishery". Its just the wrong angle to tell the story.
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I think money in this argument is the entire problem. Either way the argument always comes down to money. SF study The Southwick study all about money. Maintaining a commercial fishery Money. The fish are secondary to these arguments and that is the sad part.
Fisheries management is about money and not fish. What is the maximum sustainable yield etc.
Slot limits or not we do not need to re invent the wheel we had a formula that worked pretty damn good IMHO 1@36 fish were every where after a few years.
You could ask 100 fisherman commercial or recreational what the solution is and you would get 100 different answers.
The solution is going to have to be recreational and commercial guys working together for the betterment of the fishery through a fair and equilateral reduction. Otherwise someone is going to get hosed.
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