Sea Bass Closure

[Blackfish Doug]

This is what they want plain & simple.

Originally Posted by Taxman

You can fish for weakfish and then switch to whiting

Oh wait, nothing was done for them and you bitchh that they are gone.

The day people stop buying fish in the markets and ordering them in resturants is the last day commercial fisherman will have the upper hand

Curious....are you suggesting that the reason there is hardle any weak and whiting left is because of the rod and reel fisherman rather than the commercial guys.....?
There seems to be plenty of weakies in the surf right now...!

[MartyS]

It doesn't take a genius to tell which species of fish are plentiful and which are in trouble. Most recreational fishermen can tell.

Blues, sea bass, fluke are among the plentiful and we should be able to fish for them more freely.

Whiting, weakfish, winter flounder are scarce and need regulation.

Somehow, NOAA manages to utilize our tax dollars to manipulate faulty data to completely mishandle the regulation of our fisheries. I really hope they are just diehard anti-fishing types, because if they seriously think they know what they are doing, they belong in an insane asylum. Their marine forecasts look accurate compared to their fisheries management.

The amateurs at windguru.com do a better job forecasting the winds and seas than these overfunded NOAA morons. It was blowing a lot harder than 10kts this morning when I was out fishing.

[Taxman]

Originally Posted by maddhatterr

Curious....are you suggesting that the reason there is hardle any weak and whiting left is because of the rod and reel fisherman rather than the commercial guys.....?
There seems to be plenty of weakies in the surf right now...!

I am suggesting that they are missing because nothing was done to stop them from being overfished. What is being done now might not be great, but is still better than what was done to save the whiting

I am suggesting that just because we have a 1 week run by the Man Inlet, does not mean the stock is healthy. Fortescue calls themselves the weakfish capital of the world and they would kill to have a 1 week run. They are catchig blues and croakers and dreaming about the good old days

The Raritan Party boat fleet prayed for the weaks to show after the fluke season closed

I am stating, that as long as there is a big demand for seafood at the markets and in resturants, the general public and the politicians will not give a damn about the recreational fisherman and only care that they can buy what they want, when they want, at a good price.

[skipper.ll]

i hope the party boats that target these fish can find something else that the fares would fish for or it is going to be a very long hard winter for them