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Originally Posted by CowHunter
I somehow doubt stripersforever is gonna get a warm welcome in the South! The boys down there are trying to get the eez zone opened to 12 miles so they can kill more and it aint commercials....Ive seen boats down there tossing dead keeper bass out of their coolers when they get bigger ones so they can have more meat!
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Stripers Forever fully understand this. They know that the Va and NC guys would kill ever fish in the ocean. I'm not a SF member and I am not in full agreement with what they want but I understand what their doing and agree with much of it.
They have one real focus point, stripers become a game fish. They understand that the only way to do that is for recreational fisherman to obtain the controlling voice at ASMFC stripe bass board. Having Mass end commercial fishing is not their end goal. It is just a step towards their end goal. If they can get three states to end commercial fishing the board would now have a lean towards the recreational ficherman. Then it would be possible to gain game fish status.
Most of the comments being made here are only looking at it from the present state of the ASMFC borad make-up and that this is the end point rather then a step towards a goal. Saying that the Mass quota will be given to another state is based on the boards present make up. If Mass changes this will make a real difference, get one or two more states to change, then we would see a real difference.
They also know that as long as the board continues it's present make up it is almost a waste of time to try and get them to reduce the catch numbers. Right now it is a fight to just stop them from increasing the numbers.
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