ASMFC To Take Action to reduce Striped Bass mortality

[stripermaineiac]

Your right Mako. But at the hearings the arguement is that sportsmen get 50% an comms get the right to harvest up to 50%.The problem is that the only way for things like what we did up here in Maine way back when to work is to get the percentage point out of the arguement and just focus on the fish.

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by stripermaineiac

Your right Mako. But at the hearings the arguement is that sportsmen get 50% an comms get the right to harvest up to 50%.The problem is that the only way for things like what we did up here in Maine way back when to work is to get the percentage point out of the arguement and just focus on the fish.

I'm not sure I understand that. Are you saying that in ME the commercials get 50% of the fish? Coastwide the commercials get about 20% of the fish.

[Liv2Fish]

Aside from posting long winded bitching posts on message boards about this situation, is there anything we can actually do as an organized group to affect change?

How many members are there between here and the other sites? Not to mention MSBA and RISSA, etc. all up and down the coast!

How hard would it be to actually organize some sort of movement, petition or something along those lines. It's a long winter. I would volunteer some significant time but I don't know what to do?

There seem to be a couple of people on here who are "in the know" of how this "F'd up system" actually works and when the opportunities to strike actually occur. Tell us what to do? What is the best, most concentrated method of getting the point across?

Seems to me that the "Big Dogs" - OTW, RISSA, MSBA and the shops, Red Top, SW Edge and any shop on the east coast that target the hard core surfcaster (who primarily fish for Bass) have a vested interest in putting up any cash needed. Operators of these boards should reach out to each other to discuss a united front approach to something organized.

We seem to be a rather large group and we should be able to do something other than bitch about it.

We need a leader, a clear message with direction and a plan. Don't we have until 2015 to "Bitch" in the right direction?

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by Liv2Fish

Aside from posting long winded bitching posts on message boards about this situation, is there anything we can actually do as an organized group to affect change?

How many members are there between here and the other sites? Not to mention MSBA and RISSA, etc. all up and down the coast!

How hard would it be to actually organize some sort of movement, petition or something along those lines. It's a long winter. I would volunteer some significant time but I don't know what to do?

There seem to be a couple of people on here who are "in the know" of how this "F'd up system" actually works and when the opportunities to strike actually occur. Tell us what to do? What is the best, most concentrated method of getting the point across?

Seems to me that the "Big Dogs" - OTW, RISSA, MSBA and the shops, Red Top, SW Edge and any shop on the east coast that target the hard core surfcaster (who primarily fish for Bass) have a vested interest in putting up any cash needed. Operators of these boards should reach out to each other to discuss a united front approach to something organized.

We seem to be a rather large group and we should be able to do something other than bitch about it.

We need a leader, a clear message with direction and a plan. Don't we have until 2015 to "Bitch" in the right direction?

It would be like trying to heard cats. Look at these discussions, seems like we can't even get two people to agree on what should be done. And the truth is no one knows what any of the proposals would do to the statistics that are used to manage the fishery. Some guys like ME's rules, but the truth is that ME's rules are designed to be the conservational equivalent of 2 fish at 28 inches, so going coastwide with that is going to do nothing to reduce the harvest. Yes there are times when pressure is more effective than at other times, but what do you want to apply pressure for?