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...
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...
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...
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