Snapper Slaughter

[Billfish715]

NOT! Check the bluefish regulations for this year.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/pdf/2020/digmar20.pdf

If you pay to fish on a party boat or for hire vessel, you may keep 5 bluefish. If you fish from a private boat or rental or from shore or from a dock, you may keep 3 fish. That includes snappers! That's right. I guess that the snapper population is being decimated by hundreds of 10 year olds who are a threat to the survival of adult bluefish.

Is anyone tired of being told what to do and how to do it by a government bureaucracy? If you pay for them, you're entitled to more fish. If you don't pay, you get less. Hmmmm? Who decided on the bag limits? How were they decided?

No size limits on bluefish but size limits on everything else? Explain that please! I can keep three snapper bluefish but I can't keep a 16" fluke! The more the "scientists" profess their wisdom, the more they spotlight their lack of common sense. Maybe ti's not the scientists who show a lack of practicality or sense.

The governmental decision makers will always fall back on "scientific data" to guide them. The scientists present numbers from their mathematical calculations from data that is partially complete. They are the professionals and they should know, is the excuse the decision makers use to decide out fate.

Gerry might be on to something. The "fish police" will be so busy checking fishermen for social distancing and face mask violations that they won't have time or the effort to check size and bag limits for my catch.