POGIES CLOSED

[clambelly]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

The motivations of someone performing an action for profit or for recreation are unmistakably different. As demonstrated numerous times throughout history, when man is allowed to mine a resource for profit unrestricted, he will take the resource to the brink of extinction in order to maximize his profits and without consideration of the effects on other aspects of the environment or other people.

Recreational fishermen have not invested millions of dollars fine-tuning, upgrading and making their fish mining equipment the most efficient in the seas. Commercial pogy vessels have.

If we want stripers to flourish (or all marine life, minus the seals), we must protect the bait. Allowing the unrestricted mining of the forage is asking to screw up the whole balance of the oceans.

Please don't compare apples to oranges.

it is not apples to oranges. we are talking about the same thing. i am not advocating for more commercial harvesting. i want the same thing you do, more pogies.

the sad part of this whole thing is that the recreational fishermen who harvest pogies for their own use are not bound to report any of that. so who is to know how much is actually being taken.