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Originally Posted by RussA
It's simple, I am from NY and the slot limit was only for a short time. To nitpick is folly.
Your state allows Omega Protein to harvest bunker, NY doesn't.
The above are facts, the only thing that was corrected was there was a slot limit and I said wow I didn't realize.
You can blame the bunker boats all you want but the facts are the for hire boats are doing the most damage. This is a fact. Show me where you have seen 100's of dead stripers from bunker boats in NY Harbor or the Raritan bay, you can't because you are talking about other states.
There are 2 main spawning areas, The Chesapeake and the Hudson. The delaware bay may have some fish but the two areas I just named are the primary areas we catch our bass from.
From March through December for hire boats from NC to MA wreak havoc on both stocks of fish. They are even caught in the eeze illegally.
These are facts you can not dispute. In the 70's and 80's it was commercial, in the 2000's its the for hire boats and private boats.
Sure you can say but I saw a picture of dead stripers and so on, do you know how much bunker I saw with nothing on them all summer long while fluking? an ungodly number. So the bunker boats are doing their own damage to the bunker and I for one want them gone, but this is for another thread.
In order to fix the problems Private and for hire boats need to start policing themselves. I for one am sick of getting dictated to what I can catch and how many I can keep and when I can catch them... How about you?
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Originally Posted by Capt Sal Cathy Sea Charters
Russa You keep bashing NJ for no good reason.As far as our state allowing bunker to be sold for Omega you are dead wrong.The bunker boats have a ''B'' on them and that means bait only.As far as NY not allowing Omega boats wrong again.Reduction boats are not allowed inside the the three mile line and that means State waters.NY has nothing to say about federal waters.NY does not allow purse sieners inside the three mile line or Raritan Bay or Long Island Sound.Get your info in order.I have seen stripers floating in Raritan Bay after being dumped over by purse sieners netting bunker.Weakfish also were crushed.
Next this post is about a striper limit and angler participation not your NY verses NJ BS.This is a NJ site and a good one so let it go and stop hijacking posts for your own agenda!
I want to thank everyone that responded.True sportsman on this site IMHO
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Sal you are a very passionate man, good for you!
I never bashed any state, you really need to take a breath and read what I am saying, all I am stating are my views with some facts as well. I said NY doesn't allow Them in NY waters, you should re-read what I wrote I quoted it for you.
Sal My info is very much in order, like I said take a few deep breaths and read what I wrote.
You have seen all this stuff because your state allows it. You see that is a fact, not an opinion.
NY saw a long time ago what commercial fishing with nets does to fish stocks, NJ well they will learn soon enough.
This isn't a NY vs NJ thing this is about us as fishermen coming together to fight for our right to sustainable fishing and actually getting useful numbers to work with, and models to calculate said numbers.
You want it to be a NY vs NJ thing I get it, thats why you keep bringing that point up. I want all fishermen from our waters to come together so we have a voice. I see the big picture, not the small one where people like to be isolationists and say we know whats good for us in our state and keep fishermen divided.
You need to start thinking about the future of our fishing and not your own state only because you will suffer what NY went through for years only you will lose a hell of a lot more boats, thats a fact.
United we stand! Divided we fall... You are falling for the ploy to get fishermen divided, don't.
