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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski
Wow probably one of the most depressing, eye opening and informative fisheries mismanagement pieces I've ever seen.
Although it's mostly focused on NC, if you care about fishing and how it's managed and stacked against recreational fishing this is a must watch video!!
If nothing else just listen to the 17:30 to 18:30 section... What is a public resource is basically handed over to commercials for their personal gain.
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I have been saying it for years . It’s not only a NC issue .
It’s those long range boats that are fishing everything from NC up through Massachusetts.
Those 7 day boats hit Massachusetts waters early when fish are moving in .
Their limits were lowered , but 2 years ago they would catch 80 thousand pounds of squid . And 30 thousand pounds of fluke per boat for a 5-6 week period .
Nj boars could fish outside 3 mile line right next to them .
Nj boats were catching 3000 a week , while NC boats were catching 30000.
.they destroyed their fisheries , and have moved onto everyone else’s .
The rest of the states need to grow a set of balls and push for federal changes to protect their states interest .
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