Fluke Regs this year

Originally Posted by Detour66

The new administration recently signed the "Modern Fishing Act". Does this act have the potential of correcting the unfair and ignorant regulations that are now in place? Can anyone answer this or is it a "wait and see" situation?

Here's a link which explains a bit about the recently signed Modern Fishing Act. I believe it gives states and the recreational angling community more options or leverage but not sure it alters the provisions of MSA directly. There's others on the site much more versed in this who could chime in here.

http://www.trcp.org/2019/01/01/presi...dern-fish-act/

It's definitely a step in the right direction but with any legislation it needs to be time tested to understand what impact it's ultimately going to have. There's a lot of people fighting for recreational interests and giving their time, significant amounts at that. The biggest drawback as others have mentioned is recreational is not as well organized as commercial and we have a shadow of their funding and lobbying power. From my perspective, when fisheries management starts making the right decisions to rebuild stocks and when rebuilt gives both recreational anglers and commercial concerns equal access and equitable allocations unlike what's happening with the Sea Bass fishery, then the system is working.