[Broad Bill]

Pat I'm not necessarily disagreeing or trying to be argumentative but the core problem with the fishery is the decline of the stock due to misguided regulations, the substantial decline of SSB and female gender composition causing a substantial decline in recruitment over the past decade. How does any of this address any of these problems? And let's be realistic, this fishery from NMFS, ASMFC and MAFMC has been given to the commercial sector. What the recreational sector gets is left overs at best. The issues these options address don't at all address the overall health and survival of the stock or the fair allocation of the resource between sectors so really what's the relevance? I know you're the messenger and trying to help so thanks for that effort but these options in my opinion are the equivalent as I've said in past of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.