Are the chickens comming home to roost?

[Eric Roach]

The fishing in NH & ME has been steadily bleeding out since 2004. A fall blitz today is seeing some swirls in September. Used to be epic.

I can't take guys seriously who think things are not so bad, that fish "are still around" and they're catching fish. Of course you're catching fish -- all of us are catching fish at times. The issue is the number and size.

Attend the ASMFC meetings, and write your state ASMFC representative(s); press them with your anecdotal evidence from your time on the water. Ask them to please err on the side of conservatism when faced with ambiguity of empirical evidence, instead of constantly falling on the side of maximum yield. So sick of the admission that there is "noise in the numbers" with data and seeing them not take a conservative stance in those instances.