[Gerry Zagorski]

Mixed emotions about 3 @ 19 with a longer season or 3 @ 18 with a shorter season, pick your poison.

With 3 @ 18 I think people have a better chance of keeping some fish for the table. However 3 @ 19 with a longer season allows people to fish more, albeit for larger fish...

Either way we're still taking it in the shorts and things need to change.

I would bet the office of the Secretary of State did not want to deal with an appeal and told NOAA find some way to work this out with NJ so everyone had to compromise something.

I think Jim Hutchinson summed it up nicely in his article when he wrote " It’s been said that a good compromise is one from which all parties leave equally dissatisfied"