My sense (DZ, #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, Fisheye might have a different opinion) is that nothing will happen THIS season. I think it is clear to ASMFC that the public comments favor a closure/ban on the elver/glass eel fishery, since obviously alot more eels are killed per pound and at a vital life stage.
The way the timelines work, UNLESS they go with a USFW Endangered route or take emergency action, it will be a year before any formal action is taken by ASMFC. I think we have eels for now, BUT if it comes out to ban the glass eel fishery, please support that. Also if it comes up, several people wanted to look at the amounts of eels exported vs kept in the US.
It was also commented that when compared to the glass eel fishery the recreational and bait take may and probably is much smaller
FYI for an idea of what goes on see
http://northeasteelcompany.homestead.com/eelpage.html
Based on their numbers, if they harvesy 500kg of glass eels, then thats approx 2.5 MILLION baby eels.
And Spence: Bite me you overgrown cornhusker
... my plugs catch fish.... as do my eels.. something you witnessed a night in Oct where I think you got the skunk.. hmm
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