Re: cut next year's summer flounder catch by 10 percent
Paul with all do respect, we did not go over anything. Actually we were under in many seasons, and the funny thing about one particular year where we lost half the fleet and actually had a 2 week closure in the middle of our fluke season mind you with only half a fleet so not many boats for all of LI actually targeting fluke we went over and it was For 2009, the minimum size limit was 21 inches, compared to 20.5 the year before. The bag limit was two fish, down from four. Additionally, there was a split season:
Open: May 15 – June 15.
Closed: June 16 – July 2.
Open: July 3 – August 17.
Closed thereafter.
And we still went over because of BS Data from the MRFSS, that boarded vessels and took numbers down in surveys.
Care to challenge these facts?
Sidewinder, The info. I posted about NY making poor management decisions that resulted in them exceeding their quotas came from the NJMFC. I believed them to be correct but do not have the time to research prior years to see when NY exceeded its quota and when it did not. I don't doubt what you said either and I certainly agree that the real problem is the "fatally flawed data" that we have all been complaining about for years.
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