[hammer4reel]

If your info was accurate (which I don’t believe it’s even close )
Then NMFS would have to take those ridiculously high discards into account in landings .
Just like they add release mortality into ours .

They don’t just drag and drag until their nets are over full . And then throw back as many dead fish as they keep .
To them every fish is money .

Actually look at reports from Long Island and all the states above us .
Why are they experiencing the best fluke fishing they have ever seen ?

It’s pretty evident there is a movement of the main biomass of this fishery .

The movement that should have been filling in here. Was absolutely crushed by the commercial fleets from the Carolina’s .
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While fishing here def isn’t good by any means , this year there has been more commercial presence in our area than ever . And they definitely are catching their weekly quotas here .
So fish are here , even if recreational guys aren’t catching