[Bob T.]

Thanks for the report. I think people get frustrated at the closures, bag limit reductions and stricter size limits that keep getting changed, and not in recreational fishers favor and need somewhere to vent. I doubt if the hero pictures cause any of it but wouldn't be surprised. Fisherman contribute a LOT of money into the economy no matter what State they are from or fish in, it seems that doesn't matter because the environmental groups get stuff voted on in their favor. Personally I have joined the RFA, and have made small donations to Save the summer flounder type groups. A captain of a non-sponsor boat out of Ocean City, Maryland that specializes in sea bass fishing has posted a lot of info on his website and in his newsletters about how screwed up the data is, that is used to decide bag limits and seasons, Some years the Government regulators think that the shore and jetty based anglers in one State have caught more Tautog than the entire east coast fleet of private and for-hire boats combined.