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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
Your kidding right? Your sounding like a confused DMF person.
No need to protect the small fish because they don't all become big fish. You will have to help me with this advanced logic.
This goes along with some recent statements (some direct quotes) I heard from DMF folks in the last year:
How about we buy back fishing licenses to see if people sell them to us?
How about we tag fish that we keep and not the ones we release?
SB populations are not down from years past, it was just we had too many back then. (seriously)
Those draggers were not probably not fishing in muskegut channel they were probably just cleaning their nets.
We monitor bunker in MA...the populations are down.
It is OK if the bulk of the quota comes from one spot...we have a quota so we don't over fish.
"we have observers, no comm fisherman is taking herring"
"Codfish have been overfished for the last 150 years"
" I sleep good at night"
I have given up on all hope for any kind of future fishery.
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Simple logic. If (lets just say) one in ten thousand elvers survives to become an adult silver eel, then a fisherman could catch nine thousand elvers and not do as much damage as a bait fisherman catching one adult eel. The real problem with eels is the water turbines that kill thousands of adult (silver) eels when they migrate downstream to spawn.
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