MSBA's role in Striper Hearings?.....and a proposal.

[numbskull]

A commercial guy on another site, John Rice (capecodder 19 ?), is claiming that,

"Pat from MSBA summed it up nicely, when he said that MSBA is the voice of rec bass fishermen here in MA and not SF and that MSBA is totally opposed to this."

Is this true or is this guy misrepresenting what was said?
Did the MSBA actually represent themselves as "our" voice?

If so, how did they go about it?
Did their members who sell bass abstain from voting?
Did they take a vote or did their leadership decide for them?
Did they sample survey the 99.9% of striped bass fishermen in the state that do not attend their meetings?


It dawns on me that MSBA does have a chance to do this right. They could run a survey at their MSBA show, on the back of the ticket used for the entry raffle. They could ask with a sign "do you favor gamefish status for striped bass...yes or no?" We could then write yes or no on the ticket as we drop it in the raffle box. It would be simple to tally this up. This would certainly help them speak for us in a more informed manner. I can't see why they wouldn't do it if they are honest about being an objective representative of general recreational opinion in this state .

Any chance of this happening, Pat?