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Originally Posted by dales529
Hey no way am i saying you are the problem/ exactly the opposite. Visited the hundreds of emails we sent together to all the various agencies and scientists ( some more science than others LOL) We / YOU got pretty high up the food chain! Then it stopped ( not censured ) as there was changeover in players and the old ego train. Doesn't mean we give up.
What I meant by "suck it up" is that you know how this game is played. You have to be able to hear you are wrong before they realize you are right and spoon feed a little at a time so they think they figured it out on there own! Sucks but maybe gets the results we all are after.
Made some phone calls today and will call you with some higher ups willing to discuss and re-evaluate your data. Will call you later today and hopefully we can get an in person meeting together as the consensus is YES Fishery Management needs a complete overhaul. MSA is outdated and someone including a peer review scientist needs to write a whole new management plan.
While the call for lawsuits may be justified its just not practical and will go nowhere.
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I agree with everything said and would love to have an in person meeting with people capable of carrying the bucket up the hill. I'll share my work with anyone at NEFSC or NMFS who will review it objectively and be more than happy to discuss my analysis based on their own data which was the intention from the beginning and share my calculations, historical trend analysis and conclusions. Anyone who looks at this objectively will realize the preferred use of increased size minimums to "manage" the recreational sector set in motion a chain effect of consequential damages to the biomass, gender composition of the stock, declines in the biomass and SSB and historically high discard mortality rates and historically low recruitments levels bringing us back to levels not seen since the 90's. After 30-40 years of management , we're killing the two things most important to the sustainability of any fishery, the breeding population and recruitment. No fishery survives without both and this one is certainly feeling the effects of decades long policy decisions negatively impacting both.
