Tuna Landings updated

[RIROCKHOUND]

Good discussion guys. I don't do much w/ inshore Bluefin down here... we save our fuel for the longer run, so I am woefully out of the BFT management loop... BUT, it seems to me, the original argument is that the quota will be given away has nothing to do with the Rec's not calling it in (assuming Chris is right that the recs have reached their quota the last few years, I don't know but I believe him), and it is really an issue of fewer commercial fish being caught... is that fair?

the fact that they can't streamline the process and make it digitial is silly, you think it would be easier to set up an online form with name, license/permit number, and who, what,when, where caught...

[clcharette]

[QUOTE=RIROCKHOUND;677166]Good discussion guys. I don't do much w/ inshore Bluefin down here... we save our fuel for the longer run, so I am woefully out of the BFT management loop... BUT, it seems to me, the original argument is that the quota will be given away has nothing to do with the Rec's not calling it in (assuming Chris is right that the recs have reached their quota the last few years, I don't know but I believe him), and it is really an issue of fewer commercial fish being caught... is that fair?

Yes thats a fair shake down.

[keeperreaper]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

the fact that they can't streamline the process and make it digitial is silly, you think it would be easier to set up an online form with name, license/permit number, and who, what,when, where caught...

Right on. But the way they derive the fact that the rec's overharvest their alottment of the quota is voodoo science at its best and a totally uneducated guess at its worst.

The whole system is flawed at its core and to douche the whole system and come up with a system that works for the eastern US would be the prudent and logical thing to do.