[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by Broad Bill

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.

Watch this , just know in advance you will probably puke .

https://youtu.be/NRdxVQhcrYs?si=3TxABrGWb0jrlv-j




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