NJ shark fishing closure????

[TurboDan]

I'm going to D.C. myself and 100% support that effort, but this is on the state. Had they just passed the proper measure in the state legislature the feds wouldn't shut it down.

Sounds to me like this is a rubber-stamp piece of legislation, even if it's just extending the previous provisions. I think they'll be able to get this through. Only thing is that if ASMFC finds us out of compliance and votes our fishery closed, then the state acts to comply, it would take a second vote from ASMFC to reopen us. When's the next ASMFC meeting after Feb.?

Just another instance of the Shore area being forgotten about. If shark fishing was big in Bergen, Essex or Hudson counties, this would have been taken care of long ago.