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Originally Posted by Broad Bill
Those are some beautiful whiting. If regulations are put in place to protect these fish from small mesh netters, I believe the fishery will once again expand in very decent numbers to the Mud Hole and NY Bite. But the regulations can't allow unabated netting with tens of thousands of juveniles left floating on the surface. If changes were made in fisheries management, which I have little to no faith there will be, to honestly manage stocks instead of managing commercial catch values, there'd be enough to go around for everyone. And in the case of ling and whiting, you'd see another world class fishery for bluefins in the Mud Hole in the Spring and Fall during their migration past our coast.
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No doubt , have seen miles of floaters there on trips coming back from offshore .
And some times they aren’t all tiny fish .
