Bait shops for us and against us

[RIROCKHOUND]

Fish-eye and eddie.
One thing that gets NO MENTION is this.

First off, I'm a geologist not a biologist so this is my SWAG (scientific wild-ass guess)

The claim is that 1million pogies will filter out 31Million lbs of crap (or somewhat there about)

That is the GROSS uptake of pogies. What gets no mention is the NET benefit. My sense is that any benefit is much much smaller, maybe 10% of that 31Million pounds.... remember.. Pogies eat but Pogies SH_T too!

I think any gain, while important will probably be much less than the benefits the CSO tunnel will provide, OR if all the coastal homes on Septic in the bay are put on Sewer and treated.

I supported the bill by emailing the reps, but I am skeptical of what if any science went into this claim.

As far as the bait shops... They are entitled to their opinion. I disagree at times, and these get voiced at Advisory panel meetings or RIMFC meetings, and not patronizing them because of this isnt a great thing IMHO...

Some shops DO well w/o bait, a la SWE, but for most shops it is a very important item to have bait to sell, be it eels, pogies, squid, whatever