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Unlike other industeries for some reason people think we need to compensate commercial fisherman when there is a lack of work for them. The two issues many had with the original bill was game fish status and the slot limit. Patrick hasn't given up on the game fish status but he is open to suggestions. Maybe it was stripers forever that got the ball rolling but here is a chance to modify the bill and remove the slot and maybe shift to a one fish limit as many suggested in post under other threads. Now is an opportunity to change it from the SF bill to the Mass recreational fisherman bill.
Some say leave regulation to ASMFC and don't get politicians involved. What a bill like this does is gives your state rep at the ASMFC an understand of what the people from the state want.
I agree that closing off beaches hurts the cape businesses but don't under estimate the effect no bass would have. I like many others, make about six trips a season to the cape, that I wouldn't be making if there were no bass.
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