Stripers-Are you in or out?

[Dino]

Originally Posted by tunajoe

Unfortunately, I think there will be a impact on the industry. Most of us here on the boards are respectful of the resource. However, for the average fisherman who is not that serious about it, they might be reluctant to go and opt for fishing for another species when they are around. Just look at what happened when the regs changed for bluefins. One per boat made it very difficult for many to even want to go on a trip. In the past, I just could not get enough guys together for a bluefin trip when the limit was 1 fish. All in all, there will be an impact on the stripers. They need to target those commercial fuc#ers.

to me that was a positive impact of the 1/boat bluefin regs... as a tuna fisherman.. can you imagine if it were 1, or 2 per person, you would have party boats, open boat charter boats, all kinds of bayliners and pleasure boats, all out on the bluefin grounds... everyone dragging the same rainbow spreader bars and raining down jigs like aerial bombardment . dont forget ...we used to catch school bluefins 5-15 miles off.. now you have to run 60 miles, and arrive before sunrise if its a weekend. was that due to rec fishing? no..no it was purse seiners..agreed. but purely for selfish reasons.. isn't it better to fish bluefins now than if there was a strong industry for them? been the to the atlantic princess in the summer on a flat day recently? its a parking lot as it is! .. 1 per boat is a common sense regulation... cutting down participation is sometimes the point.. i dont really want there to be a rec "industry" for bluefins at all.. in my humble opinion..