What's Going On With Our Fisheries?

[Gerry Zagorski]

Used to be at any time of the year you could find some fishery that was open and you actually had a chance at catching something.

Seems like we always used to have some seasonal gap and back up fillers like Winter Flounder, Ling and Whiting as well as some staples like Bluefish and Weakfish that are now absent.

Couple that with all the recent doom and gloom with Fluke and now Striper recruitment and open and shut Seabass and Blackfish seasons, what the heck are we going to be able to fish for if there are gaps in those seasons?

A lot of theories as what or who is to blame but suffices to say the federal agencies that are in charge of managing the resource are failing us miserably. We can and should expect more from them given their $1.2 Billion per year budget, don't you think?