Commercial Fishing!!!!

[Fly Rod]

for striped bass will come to an end tues evening August 10th!!!

The qouta will be reached !!! Remember that your fish must be sold by midnight !! So check to see what time your dealer closes!!!

Here in gloucester the auction closes at 6pm for selling stripers!!!

[RockLobsta]

Fly-

You around sun-mon? Will be out both days............

[sokinwet]

Just checked the DMF web site (fri. 4/15). Quota was @ 66% as of 7/31. They have not posted a closing date on the site. Closed last year on 8/10; where did you get this yrs. date?

[Mr. Sandman]

August 5, 2004
MarineFisheries Advisory





COMMERCIAL STRIPED BASS FISHERY TO CLOSE ON

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2004.


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Based on dealer reports, MarineFisheries has projected the total quota (1,141,517 lbs.) for the 2004 commercial striped bass fishery will be reached by August 10, 2004. Fishermen may catch and land striped bass on Tuesday, August 10th but are prohibited from landing fish for commercial purposes as of 00:01 hours on Wednesday August 11, 2004 through the end of the year. The 2005 commercial striped bass season is scheduled to open in July of 2005.



Authorized dealers may possess or sell striped bass in the state for only an additional five days through Monday August 16, 2004. Dealers must submit their completed striped bass transaction forms for the 2004 commercial striped bass fishery no later than September 15, 2004. Transaction forms are required even if the dealer did not purchase any fish during the season as this constitutes written verification of the season’s purchases as reported by phone. Transaction forms should be sent to DMF Statistics Project, 30 Emerson Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930.



Commercial fishermen are reminded that a 2004 striped bass catch report is due by October 15, 2004, even if the permit was not fished. These reports should also be sent to DMF Statistics Project, 30 Emerson Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930. Failure to submit a timely 2004 striped bass catch report may result in the non-renewal of a striped bass endorsement for 2005. Blank forms and instructions were mailed out at the beginning of the 2004 striped bass season. Additional forms as well as quota totals by week can be obtained from the MarineFisheries web site at www.mass.gov/marinefisheries.



For further information please contact MarineFisheries at 617.626.1520.

[Fly Rod]

Mr. Sandman!!!!

I was begining to like you!!! Are you on pot???? I hope if you are that it is of the highest quality, !!!

"YOU ARE RIGHT!!!" it closes at 12:01 AM on Wednesday!!!!

Therefore, it is illeagal to sell your fish after midnight Tuesday August 10th!!!!

Now Mr. Sandman do you know of any dealers that are open at midnight?????

Sometimes I wonder why I get margrines!!! I thought it was the booze!!!! Now I have 2nd thoughts!!! :

But Mr. Sandman !!! you will difinitly like me more after 12:01am on Wednesday, because I will become a recreational fisherman again just like you!!!!

And you will be even happier to know that my two weeks in the Bahamas is because of the commercial striped bass season!!!

[Mr. Sandman]

Fly,
You shouldn't have a problem. The black market for bass goes on all season.
How many times were you stopped and checked this season?

[Fly Rod]

Well,!! you have a point about the black market!!! The enviromentals can't be every place They will never stop it unless they make an exsample out of some of them by taking their boat away from them & fining them heavy!!!

I heard the other day that people were fishing and getting there 30 fish at the Isle of Shoals which is in New Hampshire and then selling them at the auction!!!

I've never been stopped while commercial fishing or recreational fishing for illeagal fish!!!

[macojoe]

1 million pounds in 6 weeks!! I hope we make this endangered fish a game fish soon!!

[beamie]

A 19 day season. So much for the guess work that going to a 30 limit from 40 would increase the season by 6 days or so.

[Fly Rod]

It is not an endangered species any more!!!!

It's recovered to 100%

Bring back the 40 fish limit!!!

[macojoe]

I say 60!! That will get the PETA Boys going!!

[Fly Rod]

Don't worry about PETA yet!!!!

They are not done with all the hunting issues!!!!

After they get what they want with the hunters, then they will come after us that fish!!! And they have already started on fishing!!!

And there are people on this great striped bass forum that will help them along, because PETA is good at getting one side to go aganist the other!!!

As in any conservation program , once the species reaches it compacity such as striped bass, it has to be thined to it's sustainabilty capacity , which some recreational fishermen do not understand!!!

And "STRIPED BASS " is already a sport fish with out congress passing a bill !!! When recreational fishermen can go out and catch 20-30 million lbs. of a species that just 15 years ago was almost extinct we do not need a bill passed to make it a sport fish!!! I feel that if a bill was passed it would be detrimental to the fishery with one reason, being desease!!!

[Mr. Sandman]

no comm bias here...

August 9, 2004
MarineFisheries Advisory





COMMERCIAL SCUP MINIMUM SIZE LIMIT REMAINS AT 9 INCHES





During recent rulemaking to increase the recreational minimum size for scup from 9 to 10 inches, the commercial minimum size for scup was erroneously increased to 10 inches. MarineFisheries has filed a corrected rule and is issuing this advisory to clarify that the minimum size for commercial scup is 9 inches. To reiterate, it is unlawful for any recreational fisherman to possess scup less than ten inches in total length. It is unlawful for any commercial fisherman or dealer to possess scup less than nine inches in total length. MarineFisheries apologizes for any confusion.