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Originally posted by Fly Rod
You seem to amaze me. All you chatter about is the commercial end of it.
In the 60's it was the recreational [ sport or what ever you want to call yourself ] guy that caught and kept every 16" striper that they caught and caused the closing of the stripe bass fishery in the 70's
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Uhhhh I suppose the haul seine crowd and other uncontrolled netting in MD waters combined with their serious water quality problems in the spawning areas had nothing to do with it. I don't deny the rec's contributed to the problem...they have. But in large part this has been controlled by today’s standard. Limits are reasonable and there is a large and growing population of catches and release fishermen. On the commercial end however, limits are back to what they were pre crisis...and they are looking for increased limits and opening even more areas...I just call them like I see them.
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Originally posted by Fly Rod
And if you listened to one individual you would think that he was a conservationist, but I recall in a past post under conservation he wanted to exterminate the Plover because one of his fishing spots was closed because of the nesting area.
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I really don't want to exterminate anything. I would like to see some common sense when it comes to the bird and closing the entire beach because of one nesting pair. With all the effort that goes into caging, monitoring and protecting this bird, it would be better if it was moved to a different location...perhaps an island that IS a bird sanctuary. I think these plover folks are a little disingenuous...they stop all access to the beaches and complain about vehicles, but they don't say a word about people who have introduced predator species (skunks) on their own accord who have no natural enemies and end up consuming the plover. This is my gripe. It isn’t the trucks and the fisherman that is killing this bird and the research show it.. The birds are dying when no vehicles or people are in the area. This bird is never going to make it nesting on a populated island...either the people have to go or the bird has to be moved 5 miles away...I think they can handle that.
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