Terrible fluke season

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Originally Posted by hammer4reel

While it’s easy to think that it’s not correct .
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Even with the increased harvest they got this year of 5000 pounds a week .
With their season quota the 165000 recreational fisherman (sw registry not including all those unregistered fishing on for hire boats .)
If each just caught 1 fish for the season they caught twice what a commercial boat does for the year .


Fisherman numbers add up poundage quick .
If all fished and took home just a few fish the poundage goes up exponentially.
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I'll say this, the amount of people I personally know and have witnessed take home their 2 slot fish this year almost every single trip - from shore/boat/kayak - is mind boggling. These are people who might average 1 keeper every 3 or 4 trips from past seasons, esp from shore.

It certainly adds up.