NOAA is both right and wrong about Fluke

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by reason162

I think blaming past regulations for our current situation is tomfoolery, based on eggshell-thin evidence and bro-science talk of sex ratio for a species that by all accounts is extremely fecund and resistant to sex ratio imbalance. I'll stand corrected if/when the sex study passes peer review, but even then...the net impact of rec fishing sex selection cannot explain the past decade of low recruitment.

The larger story is climate change, the thing that is turning global ecosystems upside down for every species (including us). To ignore that awesome phenomenon and point your entire finger at NOAA regulations...is insanity.

Glad you've solved that mystery and have concrete evidence.

[laketrout]

Not global warming. Fluke catches are great in other areas of the Northeast. Montauk etc..

[Rocky]

This years slow fluke catch has more to do with water temp and the lack of feed source (bait) in the usual areas from years past. The sky is not falling, but management needs to be corrected for future growth.