JCAA Alert - FLUKE Hearing

[Joey Dah Fish]

Originally Posted by RussA

Fair!?!?!? If it weren't for NY's strict regulations your fluke season would suck balls like it used to.

Circa 1996 the fluke fish sucked so bad that a pool fish would go 3lbs, but because of NY regulations NJ benefited in the rebound of the fluke fishery, so how do you think you guys have more fluke fishermen? Then move to 1999 and that was an all out suck fest or fluke fishing. Then they started to implement HARD fluke regulations.

You guys in NJ did nothing in the way of regulating, you people were bitching when you were able to keep 8 fish per person at 18" while us in NY were at 2 at 21".

Then you are bitching about a shorter season well you guys do that to yourselves, and the South Jersey guys really screwed you guys by giving up 3 fish for a 1/2 an inch.

Just an FYI I have been around for a long time and have heard a lot of things, and your state is the only state that allows the harvesting of bunker commercially and fish pots on reefs and roller gear on reefs and you have the audacity to say you deserve a longer fishing season.

You seem like a really greedy person.

You have a valid point Paul. But what we are fighting for is to insure the recreational fishing fleet we all have had our whole lives. To shut down the recreational fishery and all the head and charter boats just to give to the commercial guys that kill everything especially the by catch and destroying the reefs and bait is plain terrible. Commercial guys are doing all the over fishing and destruction.