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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski
If we have the right Governor in place who would support going out of compliance and now we have a seemingly more fishermen federal level people in place this might be the right time to. Just like Fluke back in the day, once it got escalated to a federal level, underlings were told to " figure it out" before we were actually out of compliance.
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Gerry stripers have a lesser percentage of the fishery allocated to commercial than recreational compared to fluke so you might be right. I still don't see the states influencing the Secretary of Commerce, NOAA, NMFS, ASMFC or MAFMC without a lawsuit involved or commercial agreeing to go out of compliance and agreeing to a closure which would be shocking if they ever did. Again I'm not sure how that entire process works but you know commercial will try to influence or fight that decision from ever being made. They have the money, the lobbying effort and the ear of the Department of Commerce, I think it's that simple but pray I'm wrong.
