Gerry Zagorski
03-24-2017, 02:23 PM
https://issuu.com/recreationalfishingalliance/docs/spring_2017_making_waves
Flip to page 10 on the RFA News Letter link above and check out the analysis of our own Tom Smith (AKA Dakota) did on the NFMS using their own data....It's a pretty compelling article that points out how this fishery is being mismanaged.
Thank you Tom for taking the time to boil down this data and point out the short comings so we can help manage this fishery better.
And for those you who haven't been close to these issues and the people involved, there's a great back story here that has a lesson in it.
Just like most of us here on NJFishing.com, Tom is a regular guy and recreational fisherman who had a deep concern with what was going on with our Fluke fishery. Rather then just complain about it, he decided to get involved. He attended the Galloway meeting, saw the data they presented, got dug in to understand it more and once he did, the alarms went off and he put the analysis together you see in the article.
Tom wasn't sure what to do with it and neither was I, so I put him in touch with the right people and his work opened some eyes and was published in this article, the recent Fisherman Magazine article and even shared with some scientists.
Lesson here is you don't need to be a Marine Biologist, be on some private, state or federal committee, or have some sort of title in a fishing related organization to make a difference. We can all make a difference.
Tom has a gift for analyzing data, your gift might be communications or helping to organize things, others donate money to organizations that support their causes.
Volunteer your time, your brain, your money, your voice, whatever.... Just get involved.
Flip to page 10 on the RFA News Letter link above and check out the analysis of our own Tom Smith (AKA Dakota) did on the NFMS using their own data....It's a pretty compelling article that points out how this fishery is being mismanaged.
Thank you Tom for taking the time to boil down this data and point out the short comings so we can help manage this fishery better.
And for those you who haven't been close to these issues and the people involved, there's a great back story here that has a lesson in it.
Just like most of us here on NJFishing.com, Tom is a regular guy and recreational fisherman who had a deep concern with what was going on with our Fluke fishery. Rather then just complain about it, he decided to get involved. He attended the Galloway meeting, saw the data they presented, got dug in to understand it more and once he did, the alarms went off and he put the analysis together you see in the article.
Tom wasn't sure what to do with it and neither was I, so I put him in touch with the right people and his work opened some eyes and was published in this article, the recent Fisherman Magazine article and even shared with some scientists.
Lesson here is you don't need to be a Marine Biologist, be on some private, state or federal committee, or have some sort of title in a fishing related organization to make a difference. We can all make a difference.
Tom has a gift for analyzing data, your gift might be communications or helping to organize things, others donate money to organizations that support their causes.
Volunteer your time, your brain, your money, your voice, whatever.... Just get involved.