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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
MM As it related to your comments about winter flounder, I couldn't disagree more and the data from the regulatory bodies support that position. The summer flounder regulations and insane quotas in the 80's caused the collapse of that fishery as it was completely mismanaged. The below piece...- BroadBill
- Post #90
- Forum: General Discussion
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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
Very well said and I completely agree. Please remember the institutions who are putting these numbers together completely missed the 80's summer flounder collapse, their data and or policy decisions destroyed the winter flounder fishery and much of our overall ground fishery (whiting / ling /...- BroadBill
- Post #81
- Forum: General Discussion
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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
MM, no need for an apology about timing of your reply. I'll need time to give you and everyone else a thoughtful reply to your questions which I'll post within a week or thereabouts. As far as my resume, I won't post personal information on a public website and wouldn't recommend anyone doing...- BroadBill
- Post #77
- Forum: General Discussion
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Welcome, BroadBill
Thanks gentlemen, look forward hopefully contributing some constructive dialogue.- BroadBill
- Post #7
- Forum: Welcome Aboard
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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
Appears to be the case, thanks so much!- BroadBill
- Post #74
- Forum: General Discussion
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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
Still trying to figure out the functionality of the site so please bear with me. I posted my above reply to MakoMatt as I was running out the door yesterday and had the years wrong when the fluke stock actually collapsed in the 80's. Tried editing it but couldn't figure out how, maybe someone...- BroadBill
- Post #72
- Forum: General Discussion
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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
Then I would ask the same question that precipitated my original post which is why do tens of millions of almost keepers EVERY year never come back as keepers the following season? And how can targeting the harvest of any stock's primary spawners AND not protecting the spawn from commercial...- BroadBill
- Post #71
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Fluke Season 2026 Analysis
Correct, Va and NC make up almost 50% of the commercial harvest and NC, more than Va., harvests a majority of their quota in the winter up north. That wasn't the case years ago before they single handedly destroyed the southern most Chesapeake stock. Then they targeted the Mid-Atlantic biomass...- BroadBill
- Post #69
- Forum: General Discussion
