[Angler Paul]

In response to Dan's comments and questions:
Nj never fights for its shares of the fisheries .
NJ does fight very hard for our fishermen, particularly Adam Nowalsky, who is one of our representatives on the ASMFC. Our state even went out of compliance regarding the fluke issue a number of years ago and the Secretary of Commerce sided with us. The real problem is that is some cases like fluke and sea bass we are in our own region. States to our north and south sometimes band together against us.

Why they would push a 1-2 fish limit when many are fishing , with a 15 fish bag limit when way less are is just stupid .

Increase the bag limit during fluke seasons to 3-4 fish and let kids keep what they catch instead of throwing them back all day .
You pretty much answered your own question. There are so many people fishing and so many sea bass available in the summer that if we went to 3 or more fish it would eat up much of our quota. That would make things tougher in the spring and fall particularly for the for-hire fleet because there would be little else to fish for.


Actually promoting future generations of fisherman .

Instead of pushing all the quota into a two month time that also has a lot of other stuff to fish for .

Keep a 10 fish bag limit for those 2 months , no need for it to go to 15
The for-hire fleet has to run far offshore during November and December. Those trips are expensive so to sell their trips they need the 15 fish limit. It’s also important to note that reducing the bag limit to 10 would only give us a couple extra days during the rest of the season.

Lastly the chart did not paste as good I had hoped on my post. I do not have the technical ability to correct that.

Paul H.