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Originally Posted by Chesapeake Bill
Send the letters but don't expect instant gratification. I'll be at the meeting so long as they keep it open. I also don't think that coastal changes are the biggest area to gain an advantage and turn this thing around. As a chesapeake bay angler I can't tell you how disheartening it is to see a parking lot of boats decimating the striper population before they have a chance to swim oceanward. We do more as rec anglers to hurt the fishery than the netters do...there just isn't any data to show that other than the decline...IMHO. Our techniques for live baiting are becoming just as efficient and we need to consider catch changes in the bay.
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Agree for the most part (and thanks for going). As rec anglers fishing for Rockfish, there is a lot more of us and the economic impact is far greater that that of commercials. All user groups need to be scaled back. I'd to see a reduction for 2005 limits (IIRC 2006 was where the limits expanded on rec & comm).
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