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Originally Posted by hammer4reel
When it comes to some of the fisheries nothing could be further from the truth. Flounder was WAY over fished for way too many years when they were in small tight confined pockets , and the days of guys filling garbage cans and coolers def had a GIANT impact on them.
Too much greed on what everyone thinks they are entitled to on both sides of the fishing fence.
The IM going to get mine attitude alot of fisherman have today has def put more of a hurt on the fishery than we all want to believe.
sure a drag boat gets alot of fish in one haul, but 5000 boats fishing the same section of the coast , the numbers add up QUICK too.
Just think if every fisherman registered in NJ just caught one limit of bass , thats half a million bass
a limit of fluke a million and a quarter ,
and that can happen in 1 Day
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Nice to hear a voice of reason to counter all the anti-commercial voices.
My Dutch and German ancestors have been in this country since 1640.....they were commercial and professional fisherman and market hunters in Long Island........I am not a commercial fisherman and am pro-conservation of our resources.
Too much regulation.....BAD!...Too little regulation....BAD! Somewhere there is a happy medium.
When you want to have lobster for dinner....who catches them? When you want clams, spearing, squid, crabs for bait....who catches them? When you feed your dog or cat or fertilize your lawn, when your wife buys make up, when you go to the sushi bar........
It is down right ignorant and short sighted to point the finger at the comms as solely responsible for the decimation of our fisheries.
As for conservation.........gotta have regulations.........
reasonable, sensible, based on fact and fairy shared between all interests. AND that is not a simple as WE like to portray.
P.S.....Being pro-conservation does not mean "environmentalist" 
