Falmouth - Decline In Herring Prompts State To Seek Moratorium

[Nebe]

IF they close down mass, they should close down RI too.. I lost count of all the mass plates i saw at my local run.

[Striper1]

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Offshore commercial fisheries do not harvest herring. There is a sea herring fishery, but those fish are sold as food fish overseas. "In fact, they don’t even want the river herring,’’ Mr. Armstrong said. He added that the sea herring fishermen know that the river herring fishery is politically sensitive. However, it is known that river herring are taken as a buy catch, but there is no data that suggest that the buy catch is part of the river herring population decline.
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BUY catch STOP the buy catch!!!!!!
I love that no data on that

The state should do more to stop poaching

Rec. guys should help cleanup the runs in the spring to help the herring get up to the ponds.