eel moratorium.. has it begun?

[BrianS]

Just got back from the bait store... I was told I should grab them quick as they arent going to be available very soon... First time I was warned by my guy there....

Ill admit I do not know all the details.. was there a date set etc for eels being restricted?

[eelman]

nope, canada, where most eels are coming from now , have changed there regulations on size. its making it more difficult to get them. Just get an eel pot and pot your own

From what I have heard if anything is going to happen, its at least two years away, so you have a couple of seasons left to get a 50 on the eel.Once it does happen (if it does) just toss a pot out and get your own for fishing, I wouldent worry about the eel police finding you at 2am on some remote rock.If eels are "endagered" its because of the demand from other countries that consume them for food, not from bass fisherman.

[Slingah]

who would eat one of them slimey bastages

[NIB]

Eel is actually pretty tasty.kinda tastes like chicken.

[Nebe]

Unagi

i was told the same at my tackleshop last night..... eels are going to be hard to get next season. My hunch is that the eel suppliers are going to milk this and drive up prices before any moratorium happens. We'll see though.

[eelman]

Originally Posted by Eben

Unagi

i was told the same at my tackleshop last night..... eels are going to be hard to get next season. My hunch is that the eel suppliers are going to milk this and drive up prices before any moratorium happens. We'll see though.

not if you pot your own

I can see it now a huge underground eel market They will always be availible one way or the other.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

I wouldent worry about the eel police finding you at 2am on some remote rock.

Yeah!!!
Screw conservation!
Lets go kill some schoolies while we're at it too!

[basswipe]

I'm curious.

If possession of eels were to become illegal would any here continue to use them?

If yes how would that be different from keeping an undersized bass or hunting/
fishing out of established seasons?

[lurch]

You know damn right well that the tackle shops will be raising prices...they will say " It is not me it is a supply vs demand thing", then they will use the gas prices as an example.

Next they will increase the price of chunks (who uses chunks ) and say "Since everyone has switched from eels to chunks the demand has gone up for the chunks so I had to increase the price"

Then they will increase the price of lures because "the lack of bait, because of the denamd, has increased the price of lures"

Hey fellas...you increase the price of everything fisherman will not come to your stoe for anything. Wit the gas prices preventing some folks from fishing we dont need any more pricing pressures!


On an off topic....I just saw that the Airlines are raising prices because of "fuel prices". So if the prices of gas drops do they drop their prices....I THINK NOT!!!

[CAL]

Buy stock in Sluggos

[eelman]

Originally Posted by basswipe

I'm curious.

If possession of eels were to become illegal would any here continue to use them?

If yes how would that be different from keeping an undersized bass or hunting/
fishing out of established seasons?

I cant answer your question on how it would be different.

As to would I still use them...I plead the fifth on that

I would have no problem at all fishing sluggo's they work great, so if eels were none existant thats what I would use.....

[BrianS]

It might be time to get the 55 gallon plastic drum out.

My uncle had a nice system going for years with pots and keeping them in the drum.. He isnt using the hardware anymore.. might as well get some use out of it.



and if you really want to be an activist, instead of making ridiculous comparisons like eel use and killing schoolies... go picket the party boats where I would guess that 50% of what comes up in the way of small cod/haddock dont back down alive.

[BrianS]

Originally Posted by basswipe

I'm curious.

If possession of eels were to become illegal would any here continue to use them?

If yes how would that be different from keeping an undersized bass or hunting/
fishing out of established seasons?

Not regularly... but if one happened to swim by or something.. i cant say i wouldnt.

[Pete F.]

Why not just eliminate the commercial harvest of eels, What percentage of users would pot their own? I think it would be pretty small.

[CAL]

Originally Posted by basswipe

I'm curious.

If possession of eels were to become illegal would any here continue to use them?

If yes how would that be different from keeping an undersized bass or hunting/
fishing out of established seasons?

It wouldn't be any different. Poaching is poaching.

[eelman]

All the self rightious people! I would bet anything that any of you in the middle of a blitz where the only thing that was working was eels, would take one and hook it right up, moratorium or not!!

[eelman]

Originally Posted by likwid

Yeah!!!
Screw conservation!
Lets go kill some schoolies while we're at it too!

Here we go! lumping everything else into the eel problem, I dont kill school bass..

[CAL]

You'd lose that bet.

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

I wouldent worry about the eel police finding you at 2am on some remote rock.

You feel the same way about taking shorts under the cover of darkness? Explain the difference to me.

[BrianS]

Granted, I can only base on what I see, but I would hope they would put a moratorium on pogies and herring long before eels. Or hell, put the moratorium on any and all live bait, except for maybe clams and worms. Do it for a year or two.

Id be all for that if it helped.

[eelman]

Originally Posted by CAL

You'd lose that bet.



You feel the same way about taking shorts under the cover of darkness? Explain the difference to me.

Not worth the explanation or the argument that will ensue, I do not take shorts as your post implies. I dont think eels are endagered, I think there needs to be a 5 or 10 year study first, I think most of it is politics, one person says they see less eels in a tidal river and all of a sudden its an endangered species..There is a world out there of people , like it or not who consume eels for food and thats the problem, not bait fisherman on the east coast..

[partsjay]

got wood?

[BrianS]

$1.90? wow

still at $1 apiece and I am one of 3 guys who buy them from this guy.

I know the prices will be high but think bigger the eel....
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[MakoMike]

Was talking to a couple of bait shops last night about the eel situation. According to them ( iahve no independent knowledge of this) the Canadian goverment has prohibited the export of eels under 14 inches long. This is not only going to mean bigger bait eels but also higher prices, as the prime size bait eels get scarcer.

[BrianS]

That explains it then
The eels at the bait store I go to have been very on and off size wize

The ones I got yesterday, were all innertube size.... REALLY nice ones..

[BigFish]

What does the Canadian Government have to do with eels? Do we get all of our eels from Canada if any?

[Pete F.]

Here is more than you ever wanted to know about eels.
I found nothing about a ban, but a reduction in the daily limit is mentioned in the asmfc minutes.

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/zone/underw...anguille_e.htm
http://www.asmfc.org/meetings/februa...RICANEELBD.pdf