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Fish Tank · #1 04-15-2014, 06:12 PM

Hey guys, i would like to know what genius decided to open sea bass back up for sept.1st to sept.6.i may be wrong but that adds up to six days. Brilliant,you cant make this up folks.capt.tommy joseph

Foul Hook · #2 04-15-2014, 06:19 PM

Capt. they will must likely say we overfished it in those 6 days. the pirates are coming!!

Chris1129 · #3 04-15-2014, 06:25 PM

They must have wanted the boats railed on Labor Day, to make up for the 3 bag limit all summer???

Blackfish Doug · #4 04-15-2014, 06:43 PM

Whats worse your only allowed 1 dogfish per vessel at 54"

dfish28 · #5 04-15-2014, 07:26 PM

Nope there's a senator that wants to have a surf n turf party on the 8th... Duhhh!

dfish28 · #6 04-15-2014, 07:33 PM

In all seriousness I have never been out eeling for bass at night and be covered up in sea bass till last year, same time every year I have got stripers , last year, couldn't get through the c bass!!! Yup we are killing too many of them now too, and they'll say we killed the tog soon, it wasn't the biscuits or doggies livin life... Eating eggs and yoy...! But it's us.... Of course...

njfisherman1975 · #7 04-15-2014, 10:24 PM

I agree tommy...it's nuts! Going to need more than three to make a dozen now captain! Either way...anyone that sails with you will be "put on the meat!" Tommy is one of the best!!!

PeteyHD · #8 04-15-2014, 10:24 PM

There's probably some guy saying wouldn't it be a freaken tease if we gave them 6 days with a 15 fish bag limit? What a joke but better than it being closed!

Angler Paul · #9 04-15-2014, 11:24 PM

The NJMFC did the best they could with sea bass given the low target quota that was mandated by the ASMFC and the MAFMC. Everyone at the NJMFC meeting and I mean that literally, supported the sea bass option that was approved. The alternative would have been to have a 15 fish bag limit in July and then it would have been closed from the first week in August until October 18th.
This fishery is being mismanaged by the feds and thier quotas are ridiculously low. Further this is compounded by the fact that we are in a regional plan. Last year NJ caught only 61% of its target, NY caught 125% and Ct. caught 150%. Guess what? We all had to cut back by 7% from what we had last year. How is that fair? Now the same thing will probably happen with fluke as well next year.

Paul Haertel
President, JCAA

irishc · #10 04-15-2014, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Fish Tank

Hey guys, i would like to know what genius decided to open sea bass back up for sept.1st to sept.6.i may be wrong but that adds up to six days. Brilliant,you cant make this up folks.capt.tommy joseph

The entire season is f'ed up... Not just the 5 days in Sept.