American Shad:

[Broad Bill]

There are more shad killed every year by the use of flutter spoons than there are from the daily position limit. Shad tend to take flutter spoons a lot deeper than darts and many get gill or gut hooked. You want to protect the migration, outlaw flutter spoons. Reducing the possession limit from 3 to 2 won't prevent people from still fishing after attaining their limit so I don't really see how the new regs will materially address the problem.

If management is serious about saving the shad fishery, address the issue of bycatch mortality in the Atlantic based on the shads salt water migration and the millions that are killed in the process of commercial netting of mackerel and herring. Once again, what used to be a watershed pollution problem, is now a commercial problem to a recreational fishery. Sounds familiar.