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Originally Posted by Angler Paul;592153[COLOR="black"
[/COLOR]]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.
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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.
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Paul I’m not saying Adam doesn’t try . I’m saying the actual state of Nj doesn’t do crap to fight for our fisheries like other states do for their sportsman . We live in a State that doesn’t seem to care about the impacts shortened seasons cause .
Our council gets handed what ever scraps is left after other states fight for more .
then they have a thankless job to try and make the best of what’s given .
Reading what pat wrote percentage wise of the summer increase as spit out by the model would increase catch 7% . And sure more guys are fishing then , but most sea bass caught then are bycatch , where even 2 an angler would benifit those fishing throughout the state . So if going to 2 fish make the Nov/Dec fishery 12 fish etc , as your targeting bigger fish if making those runs . And 12 bigger fish would still get people out for them .
And the late season won’t get as much attention as I said with stripers and tog running the inshore game .
We have lost so much of our fisheries and bag limits in the last 15 years it’s ridiculous.
Especially sea bass which used to be a year long fishery at 25 fish per person daily .
