NOAA is both right and wrong about Fluke

[gnuisance]

Both of you guys definitely raise the level of the discourse, that's for sure. I feel like I'm more in a graduate school classroom than an internet forum.

Don't fluke migrate east to west? Does climate change still affect that type of migration? But not as directly? Right now we have warm surface temps but colder temps down deeper, how unusual is this for this time of year? Because of a south wind?

From where I'm sitting it just seems so unfair that commercial fisherman are getting hundreds of pounds of fish in every tow while the rec guys are grinding it out for a couple bites. I don't feel an allegiance to commercial fishing like some guys do.

The DEP came out this year in protection of the fluke fishing industry, both rec and commercial. With the idea being that the reduction would harm the industry. Well here we are 6 weeks later and the party boats are sea bassing and ling fishing and many rec anglers have given up entirely and it's not because we went to a 3 fish limit.