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[Broad Bill]

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Originally Posted by Broad Bill

Salt water quotas are set through a collaborative process between the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC), NMFS (NOAA Fisheries) and ASMFC. ASMFC and MAFMC develops and recommends fishery management plans (FMPs) and quota specifications based on scientific advice provided by North East Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), while NMFS approves and implements these regulations to ensure they prevent overfishing if you can believe that”

How can this be believed? In the case of fluke, they are killing the breeders and letting all the males die of old age. But we are being told not to believe our lying eyes. The whole system is tainted and needs to be fixed.

NoLimit, I'm sure this wasn't your intention but when you bifurcated my post and replied to it, you made it appear your reply was part of my initial post because you removed the QUOTE at the end.

So there's no confusion "How can this be believed? In the case of fluke, they are killing the breeders and letting all the males die of old age. But we are being told not to believe our lying eyes. The whole system is tainted and needs to be fixed.", that statement is yours not mine.

Smaller males aren't dying of old age, the older larger class fish that make it through are being harvested but the younger classes, both males and females, are being killed in the process of harvesting larger more valuable fish by the commercials. It's all SIZE and WEIGHT driven when it comes to commercial harvest which translates to maximum catch values, selective harvest and massive amounts of waste in the form of dead discard.

These are literally the most idiotic regulations of any fishery I've ever researched. Kill the juvenile fish, harvest the breeders, allow the commercial sector to slaughter the stock during the spawn, allow netting year round and allow out of state commercial operators who already destroyed the southern stock to do the same to the only remaining Gulf of Maine and Mid-Atlantic stocks on the eastern seaboard.