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Originally Posted by Angler Paul
I just want to point out that New York has very tough regulations now because of their poor management decisions in the past that caused them to exceed their quotas thereby forcing them to have their current strict regulations. Thankfully the NJMFC made wiser choices which resulted in us not exceeding our quotas in most years.
We are all getting ahead of ourselves for next year. As Adam said we do not know what the results of the survey will show. However, those interested need to get more involved by voicing thier opinions to those who manage our fisheries rather than just complaining here.
I too was unhappy with this years regualtions that were set by the commercial representatives on our NJMFC against the recommendation of the fluke advisory committee and the recreational representatives on the council. It is very unfair that there are more commercial representatives on the council than recreational ones.
Paul Haertel
2nd VP JCAA
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Paul with all do respect, we did not go over anything. Actually we were under in many seasons, and the funny thing about one particular year where we lost half the fleet and actually had a 2 week closure in the middle of our fluke season mind you with only half a fleet so not many boats for all of LI actually targeting fluke we went over and it was For 2009, the minimum size limit was 21 inches, compared to 20.5 the year before. The bag limit was two fish, down from four. Additionally, there was a split season:
Open: May 15 – June 15.
Closed: June 16 – July 2.
Open: July 3 – August 17.
Closed thereafter.
And we still went over because of BS Data from the MRFSS, that boarded vessels and took numbers down in surveys.
Care to challenge these facts?
