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Read this and more in the the link below...

Can anyone really believe private boats caught more Sea Bass than every Trawler/Trapper/Partyboat/Charter Boat combined?

How the heck do fisheries management people keep their jobs let alone live with themselves by setting our regulations with blatantly faulty data like this?? " Best available science ??? Do you really believe that??

I guess on the other hand it finally gives us hard working-middle class-tax paying-neanderthal-kill everything fishermen something to be "offended" about.... PFFFFT... What a joke!

http://blog.morningstarfishing.com/2...lter-3117.html

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And I am willing to bet that one way or another we taxpayers paid for the cost of that load of nonsense.
Do they think we are dumb, illiterate or just don't care?

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It's sad to see what government regulations have done. When I fish in Florida in the winter, saltwater regs. closed most available species. I have fished in NY and NJ since I was 10 now 75. Now I go out on party boats once a week and have to contend with regs. and high cost just to enjoy a brainless day out
fishing. For the most part government intervention SUCKS. Great article!!

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Thanks Gerry now I am mad. Where are they getting these numbers from!!!???

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The survey data and a bunch of other stuff probably gets fed into a spread sheet, it gets a bunch of false assumptions applied to it and spits out irrational landing information which is used to say we over fished :mad:

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or they know we don't have any big backers and will keep kicking us around like
tin cans.

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Seems like the Trump administration is not gonna help , so dam disfunctiomal they may not even know we exist .
I'm sure the commercials get heard regularly , it's a money game more than ever now .
Unless we get some hi buck benefactors to step up we are going to face some tough times or it will catch n release solely .
It's hard to understand how some overpaid , over educated under informed about any fisheries issues bureaucrats can ruin all our livelihoods year after year without recourse from anyone .

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It's outrageous. In my business we do something with any data from which we want to draw conclusions... it's called sanity checking, and we all know that this data is insane!

One way to combat this is with money to fund the same types of studies and get the real data but then well just find ourselves with each side arguing that their figures are the correct ones.

That cost would be large, but if we had the data and methodology used to arrive at these estimates we might be able get a stats masters student at Rutgers or some other school to take up a critical assessment of the methodology used as part of a thesis.

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I don't get mad I get even by breaking regulations ever chance I get.

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This is exactly what the SSFFF is doing for Fluke

To date, SSFFF has spent in excess of $130,000 of donations and grants to fund research and to influence the creation of more refined stock assessment models specific to Summer Flounder. SSFFF-funded research was responsible for sex-specific mortality being included into the last stock assessment. This revealing information was submitted by renowned stock model scientist Dr. Mark Maunder in a white paper that was exclusively commissioned and funded by SSFFF.