[Broad Bill]

Completely agree with points made on the thread. Slow growing fish, too much pressure, spot lock changing morons who previously couldn't anchor on the Titanic now can sit on small pieces, commercial fish pots employed during the spawn, the pressure from live markets and an insane amount of sub legal fish retained in support of these live markets. The fishery will and should be at a 1 fish limit or closed for 3-5 years to rebuild. The stock will not rebound without a completely different approach to how it's being managed. Blackfish will certainly be the next stock we talk about in past tense.

We did it to ourselves. This isn't environmental, it's not climate change or warming ocean temps, it's mismanagement and focus on short term harvest and exploitation of a resource without consideration of the associated long term consequences. People will balk about a closure to this fishery but when you do who do we really have to blame. Black fishing is another stock which was an absolute robust can't fail fishery which is now hanging on for its mere existence.