Opportunities for Public Comment

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by hammer4reel

How about they actually get a format to get a better accounting of what’s actually going on with the fisheries .

MRIP data has been found to be totally unreliable .
Using bad info in any of the management plans isn’t going to help any of the fisheries .

Bad management of our fisheries has caused a huge demise of MANY valuable resources.

Until better methods of actual accounting is done it’s all BULLSHIT .


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Agreed on MRIP and even those on the inside know it's flawed but it falls under the umbrella of "best available science". This is reason reason why we need options that give more weight to stock assessments until we have a more reliable way of measuring recreational catches...

For those of you who are new to this, MRIP is the Marine Recreational Information Program and it's basically an attempt to quantify what we recreationals catch based on surveys either emailed or done in person when you get back into the dock. Since they cant possibly survey everyone, some assumptions are applied to a limited amount survey data to estimate the total catch. What could possibly go wrong here

Commercial catch is a lot easier to measure since their catches are weighed and there are observes and other checks and balances to insure the integrity of what's being submitted... It's not perfect either but suffices to say, it's more accurate then MRIP.