Massachusetts Increase to Commercial Summer Flounder Limits

[dales529]

Originally Posted by NoLimit

The guy running for Governor said that for the Feds, he is going to try something new. He said he was going to meet every week with the NJ senators and congressmen in DC...and he is going to do what they do in other states. They act together to do what is best for NJ.

NJ is at the bottom of the list when it comes to getting back the tax money we pay to Washington. Our money winds up going to other states because the squeaky wheel gets the oil - the other states squeak more.

Yes I listened to him.
1) The feds are shutdown so I imagine come November there are going to be "other" priorities than meeting with him every week.

2)What he didn't say is that he understood what "going out of compliance" means ( granted he wasn't asked) and that he would have to have direct talks with Howard Lutnick Sec of Commerce rather than NJ Senators and / or congressmen in DC. We have heard that song before about "talking" with the feds on behalf on NJ but that doesn't come close to talking with ASMFC and Sec of Commerce on "out of compliance" .
But I will give him a chance to honor his try IF he wins.

2) The fed already took away infrastructure money from NJ and NY so yet another priority to work on before we get a bone.

3) What other states get NJ money? While NJ doesn't get dollar to dollar tax fishing money back not sure what you mean by other states getting ours?

[NoLimit]

They made a list of each state and ranked them according to how much they get from Washington. Some states get more than they pay and the rest gets less.

NJ gets a lot less - its dead last. I have to believe that the Governor can convince the people who represent us in Washington to do more. Maybe they are too focused on national issues and not on our issues.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/...-made-out.html

[NoLimit]

Massachusetts and Virginia’s d North Carolina seem to be benefitting at the expense of other states. Is this because of lobbying work with these fishery commission? Or is the lobbying done with Congress?