The Cost Of Not Having A New Jersey Salt Water License

[PBangler]

Kensdock,

Do you want to know or even care to know what actually lies ahead for recreational fishing? You can’t learn this by being on the water or by generations of fishermen in the family.

You’d have to know how the recent amendments to the governing laws of the 2006 Magnuson Stevens Reauthorization Act were interpreted by the NMFS. You’d have to read the guidance given to all United States Federal Coastal Fisheries Management Councils to follow.

You’d have to know in our own little neck of the woods in the Mid-Atlantic an omnibus document is in draft as we speak for all of our fisheries. You’d have to read it is inclusive of recreational paybacks, shut-downs, new accountability for all dead recreationally discarded fish and buffers for ACL’s and ACT’s.

IOW, we are headed for a drastic change in management, which has to be enacted by either 2010 or 2011, depending on the condition of the stock. Add to this we will be hitting rebuilding deadlines in the upcoming years, with the potential for complete closures.

I hope you enjoyed your fluke fishing this year and thanked founders & contributors of the SSSFF for the additional quota received.

Rome is burning and a SWL isn’t going to put a dent in the fire.