Is it just me or is anyone else picking up on the dichotomy of reasons effecting fluke. Climate change (aka global warming) is thrown out as often as any other explanation but at the same time we talk about how the bite is off because the water is too cold. That argument comes up almost as often as climate change. South wind, bottom temperatures dropped, water too cold, fluke just sitting on the buck tail not committing etc. etc. Fish swim, bait moves and fish spread out but in my opinion nothing that supports the fact that an SSB that's 500% greater at 34,250 metric tons in 2015 compared to 1989 when it was a mere 7,000 metric tons is struggling to sustain itself. The biomass is there, it's not in Maine. Catch levels even at a paltry 15% of SSB compared to years ago when recreational and commercial harvest approximated 60 - 70% of SSB annually and the fishery can't sustain itself. We've lost almost 85% of the reproduction strength of the biomass translating into significantly less new fish being introduced yearly to repopulate the biomass even at today's reduced catch levels.