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Originally Posted by CadiShackFishing
I miss those days as well filling those big burlap bags till they were overflowing. Then getting back to the dock and there were people willing to buy the fish for like $2 each. Then to the laundromat to wash the blood out of your clothes. Not sure what happened to the bio-mass but I know it was a lot of fun.
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Fishery was over-fished recreationally and never rebounded. Prior to possession limits being implemented, burlap sacks of big bluefish cooking on the deck without ice killed the fishery. Fishery never rebounded. That and to a lesser degree fillets in the supermarkets the color of cardboard wasn't helping. Check the attached link for historical landing and destruction of biomass. You'd think we'd learn. No fishery no matter how healthy it appears in today's day and age of technology can't be wiped out in a matter of years.
http://www.asmfc.org/species/bluefish
