Re: Wrong Article Fluke By-Catch
What is so confusing to me is that the recreational guys like you and me and the charter and party boat captains were complaining about the commercial quotas. This article points a finger not at the guys who trawl for fish but at the guys who drag for scallops among other things. The same government which is sworn to protect the fluke is passing regulations which call for those same fluke to be wasted and destroyed. It is inexcusable for the group from NOAA to have not informed the public or to not have studied the by-catch data before proposing size and bag limits for fishermen. So, again, did they know about the waste or did they choose to ignore it?
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