Herring

[M^2]

Close the runs until they drop, let the breeders breed

[piemma]

Since I started this stupidness, I guess I would like to finish it. I really never considered the amount of feedback that would come from one little innocent post about a 1000 year old herring run.

The true fact of the matter is that the rec fishing guys take far less herring than the commercial lobster guys do using the herring for bait in their traps.

I know a run in Tiverton that has the lobster guys lined up everyday that it's legal, filling these big blue barrels with herring. Not 12 or 24 but hundreds.

The recreational fisherman is not responsible for the demise of the Herring any more than they are responsible for the lack of menhaden. I agree that the commercial guys have a god given right to earn a living but I think that everyone has over reacted to the posting of the herring run in North Kingston.

That being said, I apologize to anyone that was offended by my post a couple of days ago and I promise you, my 40 years fishing of knowledge will never see the light of day as a post again.

[TheSpecialist]

Your wish is my command.

[JohnR]

I had to a couple more comments to Piemma's closing remarks. Increasing recently is a major concern that many of the river herring (alrewifes and bluebacks) are being collected in the pair trawlers targeting sea herring. Some reports point to the schools mixing or at least in close proximity. The finest commercial electronics in the world are not likely to differentiate between a river herring and a sea herring in massive schools of fish. This is something that is beginning to get a lot of attention and deserves a lot more.

OK - back to closed