How can DMF on the one hand look to open more commercial days to fill the quota while at the same time initiate a release mortality study on circle hooks to better estimate actual harvest numbers with conservation in mind? Here are the details on the study:
http://www.thefisherman.com/index.cf...2&ParentCat=19
Maybe I missed it, (and before you read on make it known that I do not feel in any way, shape or form that the SB population is fine and I have never been involved in commercial fishing legally or otherwise) but I rarely see anyone bring up the point that while the commercial harvest isn't being met, year to year it seems like commercial anglers are given less and less legal time on the water between reduced days, reduced bag limits for shore-based anglers, reduced shoreline from which they can legally fish (canal) and so on. I mean, shouldn't perhaps the quota be adjusted for available days on the water? Meaning if there are now only 2/7'ths the legal fishing days as compared to the date range used to generate the quota, then shouldn't the quota be cut by the same value? (I know this isn't reality but it's the kind of thing that pops into my head as I enter the 4th hour of another skunking in the surf.)
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