NJDEP Fluke Survey - Action Needed ASAP!!

[Sharkyispy]

Took the survey, answered how I truly felt the reduction in quota would impact my spending for charters, personal boat trips out and the businesses in the communities involved. I have an issue though with question #23.... Why the hell would i want to pay for a permit to catch smaller fish that what is being proposed at 19 inches and 3 fish? Why is that even being suggested?
How will paying for a permit to catch the current size fish help to meet a ridiculously calculated quota that they want to reduce??? IMO, this is a lead in to paying for fishing or licensing as required in other states....my .02

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by Sharkyispy

Took the survey, answered how I truly felt the reduction in quota would impact my spending for charters, personal boat trips out and the businesses in the communities involved. I have an issue though with question #23.... Why the hell would i want to pay for a permit to catch smaller fish that what is being proposed at 19 inches and 3 fish? Why is that even being suggested?
How will paying for a permit to catch the current size fish help to meet a ridiculously calculated quota that they want to reduce??? IMO, this is a lead in to paying for fishing or licensing as required in other states....my .02

before this survey came out, a RUMOR was heard about a pay for play permit coming out. A different version of CATCH SHARES , where you pay for what you take from the resource.
The question about what your yearly salary is BS too. who cares how much a fisherman makes.


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[Sharkyispy]

Originally Posted by hammer4reel

before this survey came out, a RUMOR was heard about a pay for play permit coming out. A different version of CATCH SHARES , where you pay for what you take from the resource.
The question about what your yearly salary is BS too. who cares how much a fisherman makes.


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Had seen the previous buzz about the permits which made this stand out even more as , Let's get a feel for how many people would do it before we make them do it......Oh my yearly income at $250k+/year is going to show them how much the community is going to lose as a result

[dfish28]

I will soon have branding irons online to make fluke look like 4 spot flounder...
Pre orders are welcome, will have a lot ready to ship by opening day if not earlier, torches can be purchased separately at your local hardware/plumbing supply stores due to shipping restrictions, sorry for the inconvenience.

But I still filled it out, and don't like that question either Mike

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by Sharkyispy

Took the survey, answered how I truly felt the reduction in quota would impact my spending for charters, personal boat trips out and the businesses in the communities involved. I have an issue though with question #23.... Why the hell would i want to pay for a permit to catch smaller fish that what is being proposed at 19 inches and 3 fish? Why is that even being suggested?
How will paying for a permit to catch the current size fish help to meet a ridiculously calculated quota that they want to reduce??? IMO, this is a lead in to paying for fishing or licensing as required in other states....my .02

This is a very slippery slope here so I answered I would not be willing to pay and when asked if there was such a program, how much I wold be willing to pay I put zero.....

Unless someone could convince me otherwise, I'm dead set against paying for the privilege to fish for what is a natural resource. The ocean isn't some pond or stream where we are paying to catch stocked fish.

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

This is a very slippery slope here so I answered I would not be willing to pay and when asked if there was such a program, how much I wold be willing to pay I put zero.....

Unless someone could convince me otherwise, I'm dead set against paying for the privilege to fish for what is a natural resource. The ocean isn't some pond or stream where we are paying to catch stocked fish.

Thats exactly how Tracey and I filled out ours

[SplitShot]

Sent .... but what should race & income have to do with the situation?? And certainly not willing to pay for a permit!! What's the hidden agenda behind these questions?

[Ry609]

Originally Posted by Sharkyispy

I have an issue though with question #23.... Why the hell would i want to pay for a permit to catch smaller fish that what is being proposed at 19 inches and 3 fish? Why is that even being suggested?
How will paying for a permit to catch the current size fish help to meet a ridiculously calculated quota that they want to reduce??? IMO, this is a lead in to paying for fishing or licensing as required in other states....my .02

I said the same thing! Why should we have to now pay to keep fish that we were allowed to last year, and how does that money prevent a so called "depletion of the stock"? Pretty sure that breeder is still being taken out of the water whether or not we paid to do so! Hopefully this survey helps us.

[dales529]

Done and not willing to pay extra for fishery management mistakes. If they asked for money to fix the data collection methodology no problem

[John85]

Please do not agree to the pay to play scheme question #23. Thank you.