Sacred Cod on Discovery tonight

[Sea Dangles]

I went out on the Island Current in Jan and did alright. I have done better on Cox in the summer. I had one day a couple years ago with a 30 and a lost slammer after a short battle,rolled up my leader and gone.
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[Guppy]

Sad

[Rockfish9]

I started watching it... between the commercials and the dramatization..it just got too depressing.... I recall the many years that we jigged codfish in the mouth of the river most of the winter when the weather was conducive to launching a 16' aluminum skiff and anytime you wanted a codfish fish dinner you could scare up enough for a meal or two from the beach anytime you had an early evening high tide...now... we can't even keep 1....if it is as bad as they say... all fishing should be stopped. Not just the recreational sector.. I threw back a lot of codfish last year while haddock fishing...the inshore waters in May and early June had cod outnumber haddock about 5:1... until the draggers came through...then there were only whiting and mud hake.

[Got Stripers]

Watched some of it and clearly there is a difference in opinions, obviously the people making a living on cod aren't believing the fisheries management stock assessments. For us striper fishermen, it seemed for the longest time, the reverse was true; management wasn't believing our stock assessments.

Still it's sad to see an entire industry come to a close, but like the whaling industries of the past, when you hunt your livelihood to the point of extinction; the other shoe eventually drops. With all the push in the media that eating more fish and less red meat is the healthier option and sushi bars sprouting up like McDonald's, there has to be a strain on the stocks and global warming is only going to make matters worse.