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The whole thing pisses me off. Years ago I could go out to F....ing Middleground for Christ's sake, 3 miles from Falmouth, in December and catch cod to 50lbs! We would catch them trolling sow and pigs in Sept. We'd fish SW shoal each spring with good results (other than losing a million jigs on trot lines). Year after year I've listened to the same wishful crap from commerical fisherman and fishery managers alike. I've watched the price of cod exceed that of lobster and swordfish. I've watched my father grow old without the fishery he planned to spend his final years enjoying. I trudge around barren ponds hoping to catch a single 10" man made trout, when years past I'd be jigging cod. Pathetic. Inexcusable. Wrong. Long past time for drastic action. This fishery should have been closed 10 years ago, and not reopened until it was fixed. That is still what is needed, regardless of the impact on the people who have brought it to this sorry state.
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