[Capt. Jerry P]

Originally Posted by Capt. Lou

I only C-R Stripers , so it won't effect me per se, however like Jerry Pointed out PB's can get hurt. Especially if other species R cut !
If u plan to fish cod in the GOM like I do , UR in trouble up there , closed areas & limit cuts will cripple the fleet for sure !
There is very little good news on the horizon anymore when it comes to R fisheries, no matter what the R&R guys do it's never enough! We didn't create these issues but we R surely paying the price !

Yup not enough winter flounder bag limit to target them in the spring even 5 fish for a month and party boats would fish fish em..... lose more n more n seabass bag n season... cod closing in areas up north... and it like winning the lotto that fluke didn't change this year ( even tho we shouldn't b at the size we are out now) So next year im sure we will pay. Pretty clear pattern...

This leads to more boats clamming bass in raritan... more boats jigging instead of cod fishing. And more boats livelining rather then putting in a day of bottomfishing.

I cant blame anyone for fishing for em... gotta fish for something...but one good weekend for the for hire fleet is alot of fish. Take 3 big party boats charter boats n the few private boats that would normally b bottom fishing. now take the guys who cod season is closed n lets say they jig a limit. That's a whole bunch of small boat guys season combined in a blink of an eye. Even if it's one fish. That seems an awful stupid way to say ur reducing mortality on anything.

Once stripers is all u can fish for bc the other regs are so screwed up u won't b saving anything or atleast it will def b cutting into the so called reduction. If u increase the amount of anglers who keep 1 or have less anglers who keep two it's a problem.

Cracks me up bc rather than most seeing that all the regulations effect the next ones. People would rather b mad n outraged over a party boat with 50 people and legal picture of their catch waiting to b filleted. When if u took a step n look at reductions in other species is just making a bunch more boats go do the samething