The Fisherman magazine throws some fishermen under the bus

[Sea Dangles]

It seems to me that he is throwing fisheries management under the bus. Those folks are hardly fishermen. He is not blaming anglers unless I am reading it wrong. Odd that you would interpret that as jealousy in my opinion.
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[tlapinski]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

Toby wrote the following:

" the biomass of cod which is seen in the GOM on Stellwagen Bank regularly moves to the south to places like Coxes Ledge and Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island where there is a very generous bag limit of 10-fish per angler. It is rather irresponsible to have such different management of the same biomass of fish, especially when the fish to the south are targeted during their winter spawning period yet those to the north are basically closed."

So Toby is basically advocating for a one or no fish cod limit for those of us fishing south of the 42.20 line, but why? Just a beggar thy neighbor move? He knows that NOAA/NMFS manages cod as two stocks, only one of which is located north of 42.20, but still wants us more southern cod fishermen shut down? In fact, the quota for Georges Bank cod, which is what is south of the 42.20 line has been increased for 2018, but jealousy knows no bounds.

Full article at:
http://www.thefisherman.com/index.cf...9&ParentCat=19

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

It seems to me that he is throwing fisheries management under the bus. Those folks are hardly fishermen. He is not blaming anglers unless I am reading it wrong. Odd that you would interpret that as jealousy in my opinion.
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Sea Dangles got what I was getting at in that post.

Mike, I'm not really sure how you're calling me jealous here. I am, as you described it, part of the "more southern cod fisherman" as I have really only targeted them off Block sailing out of RI or CT.

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by tlapinski

Sea Dangles got what I was getting at in that post.

Mike, I'm not really sure how you're calling me jealous here. I am, as you described it, part of the "more southern cod fisherman" as I have really only targeted them off Block sailing out of RI or CT.

O.K. maybe jealousy wasn't the motivation, but you clearly suggested that the limits should be stricter than they are south of 42.20. That does all of the anglers fishing aouth of 42.20 a disservice. One of the things we all agreed on at the RAP meeting, and you can confirm this with Mike Pierdnock, is that recreational fishermen shouldn't be fighting with each other for more stringent regs.

If you really wanted to point out the folly of the haddock closure you should have pointed to the fact that the recreational haddock quota went from about 2 million pounds in 2017 to over 7 million pounds in 2018, and we didn't get a single fish out of that increase.