Commercial season ending

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by angler229

Wednesday is the last day.

Thanks, Dan. Time for strictly fun fishing now, not that I sell many anyways so it doesn't matter to me. We still have a cup to win back though.

[redlite]

Nothin like adequate warning.....I can already see it now, guys that don't go near a shop today or tomorrow pulling up to dealers thursday with boat loads of fish and finding out the hard way that the season is closed and they are in violation of the possession laws.........squirrel cops will probably be out in force writin tickets to the poor S.O.B.s......I have called everyone I know and they are all like ""what the F**K......I checked the quota this morning and it was only at 83%""" some one better catch some backfire for this late notice...........

[angler229]

The announcement went out today at 1:20pm to close tomorrow,very strange for them to shut it down so quickly with them being considerably under quota. Generally they try to give people around a week so the word gets out and fish are not brought in after the quota is met. I'm curious what the explanation will be for the sudden closure.

[Karl F]

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/marin...re_082509.html

[Clammer]

Redlite ;;

that,s common practice in Rhody .with all species . If you don,t sell everyday or call your dealer you could be f #$^&*l

they usually notify the dealers by fax around 4pm the day before the are going to close a species @ midnight the next day ..sometime 2 days
I ate a tote of tautog last year
& twice over the years I,ve come in & out with bass ;;

This year when fluke closed I sold the day before & my dealer didn,t know it was closing . I picked up on it on the net ,