Omega Protein held accountable... Finally

[AndyS]

Originally Posted by Capt Sal

Foreign vessels are involved too.Raritan Bay has been raped for years by bait boats.So you wonder where the weakfish and winter flounder went. Nets kill everything. In the late nineties early 2000 period we would watch the bait boats discard large stripers and weakfish on the south side of Raritan Bay. The other side of the bay is called "Princess Bay'' same body of water different name.New York has not not allowed purse seiners in the bay for decades. New jersey does!Go figure!!

I thought we imposed a 200 mile for the foreign fleet after the Russians wiped out the entire East Coast mackerel run in the 1970's. I remember the bumper stickers, 200 mile limit now !