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Start of the wipe out were the draggers. You would see mile long slicks of dead ling all summer in the 1990s. Back then we would anchor on one spot all day and catch. It has never been nearly as good since then other than one winter. Then the 15% of the biomass that was left from that has been knocked down by a mixture of recreational pressure and continued dragging and scalloping. If we had sensible sea bass limits, the recreational pressure would drop and the population would comeback a bit.