| dakota560 |
03-29-2015 06:49 PM |
Re: 1/3 cut to sea bass. This is what our sea bass season could look like
Not going to release decent size fish anymore to subsidize commercial fisheries and retail interests so they can charge $20 lb for undersized fish at the market. And two flounder a person for flounder when for all practical purposes the season has been closed for about the last five years, tell me why that fishery isn't rebuilt or are commercial guys still destroying it with offshore dragging. For the amount of eggs each flounder lays every year if that fishery isn't completely rebuilt than the only reason is they're being pounded offshore by draggers. Every HUGE winter flounder we catch in the mud hole during summer trips this year is going in the cooler. Why should we spend $150 to $200 a trip only to let fish go so we can buy smaller ones at retail for $20 a pound! Government is stealing our share of a public resource and profiting form it, it's that simple. Sea bass, any good size fish is being filleted for a decent meal. When they start allocating the quotas properly and we stop seeing small whiting, flounder, even swordfish and sharks on ice at Shop Rite, Kings and any retail outlet, I'll start playing by the rules but until then I'll make the rules. Have never kept small fish out of respect for the fishery but these reduced limits and shorter or closed seasons are entirely out of hand. Recreational gives a little more every year and every year more and more of our share gets allocated to commercial interests. And how many more reports do we have to see where hudreds of thousands of pounds of stripers or fluke are found illegally being harvested and sold on the black market by commercial guys. Every rule is at the expense of the recreational angler and for the profit of politicians and commercial concerns.
I'm done! I'll never take more than my family can eat and do not keep small fish....those are the only rules that matter for '15. Other than that it's open season.
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