MA Maritime SB Hearing 6pm Wed: Time to get LOUD

[thefishingfreak]

I believe what was tossed around was the captains and mates would not be able to "gift" their fish to the charters
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[Guppy]

Originally Posted by thefishingfreak

I believe what was tossed around was the captains and mates would not be able to "gift" their fish to the charters
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That would be another 4 fish per trip,,, adds up

Can't make it, home builders same night, plus meal included

[MikeToole]

Looking at the hearing locations I guess no one on the North shore or Boston fish for stripers. Either that or the state doesn't want to hear from them. Especially from the North shore where the fish numbers have been really down.

[hardcore from shore]

Mike,
There is a meeting Jan, 20th in Gloucester. I believe that qualifies as the North Shore. Nice turnout at Buzzards Bay tonight. Quite a bit of non striper stuff, but key was the charter boat striper stuff. One charter captain says they need 2 to compete with RI if RI goes to 2 but the rest of the crowd was clearly in the 1 at 28 corner. Just because RI tries to go to 2 is not a reason for MA to do it, also most other states are at 1 for their charters already, even VA and NC.

Lots of MSBA guys that I knew were there (for 1@28) also a good number of Cape Cod Salties (all for 1@ 28 it appears). Slipknot and a few others from SB.Com too. Captain Dave Peros a charter guide from Monument Beach spoke and he definitely is in the 1@28 corner. He reminded the Marine fisheries that the vast majority of public comments to ASMFC in the fall were in favor of 1@28, 1@30 or 1@32. Patrick Paquette got his MSBA points across too about going far enough now so we don't lose to seasonal closures in future. 0ne rule at 1@28 would be easiest to enforce too which was mentioned by crowd and Fisheries management team as well.

All public comments must be submitted by 1/23/15 to the division of marine fisheries. They do review and tabulate the responses so there is time to be heard. Let's give them the ammunition they need to go at 1@28 across the board for recreation and charters. Rather be safe then sorry because of not going far enough now then have it worse in 3 years (with shortened season?) as this only has a 50% chance of success as it is.

A good meeting with good crowd input and a good job by Paul Diodoti and team to gather information.

Bill

[MikeToole]

Originally Posted by hardcore from shore

Mike,
There is a meeting Jan, 20th in Gloucester. I believe that qualifies as the North Shore.

Bill

Aging must be affecting my brain. I read those addresses three time looking for a meeting on the North shore to put out to our club members and somehow kept thinking they were all on the South shore. Thanks for the wake up.