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Originally Posted by AndyS
WOW, I can't believe the responses I am reading regarding this survey.
These young college folks bust their humps trying to get as much accurate information as they can and all people want to do is push them aside.
Have you ever sat down and actually talked to some of these great people ?
I have been working side by side with Rutgers MCS for over 5 years now monitoring the American Shad on the Raritan river, the amount of data is mind boggling. I do not even go to Rutgers but they embraced me with open arms because I was some one with local knowledge. If I remember correctly this mountain of information is then handed to the NJDEP, there the decisions will be made.
Everyone caved in when the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT wanted a Saltwater Registry but you throw mud at the local scientists.................. 
FYI: There are also Black Sea bass surveys going on as well as data from the mud flats in Louisiana and a group just returned from Mongolia with fish data.
In turn these scientists discuss their finding with other scientists world wide in order to draw conclusions. |
Sorry - not biting. I remember fishing in the 50's and 60's which was way before fishing laws and "researchers". Year after year, fishermen went home with sacks of fluke, whiting, ling, bluefish, tuna - you felt like a rich man.
Then the commercial fishermen let short term goals ruin the habitat and destroy stocks with by catch mortality. All this investigation of the impact of recreational fishermen is BS
