Captain Cal regulations update

[cptrb]

Regulations update
FLUKE and SEA BASS SEASONS SLATED TO OPEN - The New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council met on 4/13 and set the sea bass regulations for this year. The season will open on 5/26 and extend through 6/18 with a ten fish bag limit at 12 ½”. The season will then be closed through 6/30. It will reopen on 7/1 and extend through 8/31 but with a two fish limit at 12 ½”. It will then be closed through 10/21. The season will then reopen on 10/22 and end on 12/31 with a 15 fish bag limit and a 12 ½” size limit. Last year during the fall season we had a 13” size limit but by shortening the season by just a few days we were allowed to reduce the size limit to 12 ½”. Though the regulations have been set, they are subject to change for better or worse depending on what is decided at the ASMFC/MAFMC joint meeting on 5/10.
The NJMFC took no further action on the fluke regulations as they await the ruling on our State’s appeal to the ASMFC. Therefore, as of now our regulations will remain exactly the same as they were in 2016. The season will begin on 5/21 and end on 9/25 with a 5 fish bag limit at 18”. This regulation is subject to change depending on the ruling of our appeal.

[bulletbob]

Wow, fat city.. A FULL three week season for sea bass!
How generous of them..... Forgive my sarcasm:mad:.... bob

[Cuz]

I wish the idiots who set these strange rules owned and operated a for hire boat. After they suffer a couple seasons like the fishing fleet does they will either be out of business or make the rules fair so people can pay their bills. What a bunch of hog watch with all these broken and sporadic dates! How do idiots get on these boards? We need degreed people who also get out on the water on a regularly basis and see first hand what's really going on. How many on the board own a boat? Or even fish hard?

[Bluescat1]

Thanks for the info, hope to see you soon.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Oh come on guys... Suck it up here we need to make sacrifices for the long term sustainability of the fishery. Don't you know that Sea Bass is the success story of Fisheries Management.... They brought them back from the brink of extinction and now the stocks are 130% rebuilt :rolleyes:

All this and we have a season that opens and closes like a broken screen door in the wind and yet you can't hardly drop down a clam and not catch one :mad:

They very easily could have given us longer season based on their science but they chose not to. Seems to me that they'd prefer we didn't fish at all...

[Rocky]

Oh come on guys... Suck it up here we need to make sacrifices for the long term sustainability of the fishery. Don't you know that Sea Bass is the success story of Fisheries Management.... They brought them back from the brink of extinction and now the stocks are 130% rebuilt :rolleyes:

All this and we have a season that opens and closes like a broken screen door in the wind and yet you can't hardly drop down a clam and not catch one :mad:

They very easily could have given us longer season based on their science but they chose not to. Seems to me that they'd prefer we didn't fish at all...

I agree with you. What they call fishery management is actually fishery control. The system is broke and it needs to be fixed. The black seabass issue is a prime example of that.

[NoLimit]

Oh come on guys... Suck it up here we need to make sacrifices for the long term sustainability of the fishery. Don't you know that Sea Bass is the success story of Fisheries Management.... They brought them back from the brink of extinction and now the stocks are 130% rebuilt :rolleyes:

All this and we have a season that opens and closes like a broken screen door in the wind and yet you can't hardly drop down a clam and not catch one :mad:

They very easily could have given us longer season based on their science but they chose not to. Seems to me that they'd prefer we didn't fish at all...

Gerry, they want us all eating out of boxes. Hunters and fisherman represent a culture that is anathema to the statists.