Emergency Action on Blueline Tile

[aduma1107]

Frigging absolute joke. 3-5 years ago they had no idea what a Tile fish looked like. Screwed again by the commercial guys.


http://www.app.com/story/sports/outd...shed/24022079/

[Joey Dah Fish]

I guess we are going to have Tilapia

[kurtisb]

Originally Posted by aduma1107

Frigging absolute joke. 3-5 years ago they had no idea what a Tile fish looked like. Screwed again by the commercial guys.


http://www.app.com/story/sports/outd...shed/24022079/

Emergency regs because NJ has no regs on tile fish and the NC commercial fleet was planning to targeting them. This is a good thing, I think?

[Dave A]

Originally Posted by kurtisb

Emergency regs because NJ has no regs on tile fish and the NC commercial fleet was planning to targeting them. This is a good thing, I think?

How is that a good thing? There was NO rec bag limit and now we are reduced to 7 per trip. All based on a questionable stock assessment done by the South Atlantic Marine Fisheries Council in 2011 and conducted in the waters south of North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Mexico the rec bag limit is 20 per day not to exceed 40 per trip per person.

[PaBeerGuy]

WOW, what a disgrace. One of the few (maybe only) fish left that was unregulated by the Feds. What will this do to the few boats that run Tile trips?

[Capt Sal]

Screwed again! Just close it down with out having to answer to anybody. Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Fisheries Management...... Think about it for a minute. These people are paid to manage fisheries so what do you think they are doing to do?? They are going to manage fisheries, even ones that don't need to be managed.

If you go for a consultation to a surgeon, chances are they are going to want to do surgery. But in this case you have the ability to get 2nd opinions or seek other alternatives to surgery...

As Sal said " close it down with out having to answer to anybody. Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Who do these people have to answer to?? What are the check and balances?? Do they take into consideration other opinions or solutions?? Not based on what I see.... Yes, in some cases they have the obiligatory public comment meetings but it seems to me their mind is already made up and nothing we say matters.... They have all the power and......

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[bunker dunker]

its all about the $$$$.when I saw the fluke @ 20 something a pound and the sea bass at the same its a wonder that we can even fish for them.think of the cut the gov gets on that.

[Flukinator]

Definitely a bummer. But you had to expect if they were going to regulate the coms (the guys with more money and power), they were going to push back and make them regulate the recs, too. Regulating the coms is good, because this is such a specific fishery in such specific areas, it seems like it would be scarily easy for them to wipe out. I could even be okay with maybe a better number per fisherman for a recreational regulation. Hope they get smarter with how they regulate, but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Capt. Debbie]

Not sure how NJ regs would work in fish ONLY available over 3 miles offshore like tilefish.

NJ has no jurisdiction or enforcement authority beyond 3 miles from the NJ beaches. Only the Feds do.

Originally Posted by kurtisb

Emergency regs because NJ has no regs on tile fish and the NC commercial fleet was planning to targeting them. This is a good thing, I think?