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  1. Matts

    Looks like West Marine is going to declare bankruptcy

    They might close a store or two, but WM is not dead yet. A cynical observer might think that announcing that they are thinking about Chapter 11 reorganization (not Ch. 7 liquidation) is a way for rich financiers, in this case owners Oaktree Capital Management, to undo bad business decisions and...
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    NY Mets

    Just when I thought maybe they had pulled out of their fog, they get swept by the Rockies. Pathetic.
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    A bit of irony of the location, but Potomac River Sewage Contamination lingers

    Yeesh. I can remember being down there and there was a pro bass tournament going on in that river.
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    Port Of Egypt Sold

    Thanks for the good read. I love history. Sometimes capitalism can ruin a nice thing!
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    NOAA Fisheries - What’s new, what are they responsible for……

    It seems like they're just like ASMFC - not!
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    New York Yankees

    1973. Games were daytime. I can remember our teacher let one student listen to the pennant or WS games and report to the class. I can also remember fans huddled around NYC storefronts with a TV playing a late season game. And they'll wonder in 10 years why no one cares about baseball anymore and...
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    Magnolia pier

    bonito bonita albacore false albacore I got to take home a bonito no one wanted on a party boat last fall because even the mates thought it was an albie.
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    The Fragile Hope for Salmon Recovery in Maine

    I can recall commonly seeing racks of salmon drying in the sun when my family would go to Maine in the 60's. That stopped, but I can also recall an article in the 70's welcoming the return of salmon to the Penobscot River. That too did not work out as well as hoped. Maine has had a pretty good...
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    New York Yankees

    Can't you watch all the Yankee games on WPIX 11 and all the Mets games on WOR 9, or did I mess something?
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    You might want to read this prior to buying a new GPS/Sounder

    I love my Garmin GPSMap, but i stopped with the annual updates because they would just change features that didn't need to be changed, and which would force me to learn a new way to operate an already hard to operate machine. This is another reason not to update. Capitalism and lack of...
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    Happy birthday

    An inspiration to us all!
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    Snow melt off effects on fishing in the NY Bight & LI Sound

    "Large amounts of fresh water can deplete oxygen levels " Why? I know that warm water holds less oxygen, but why would fresh water? Is there any difference between rain runoff and snow runoff other than temperature? A foot of show is equivalent to an inch of rain, so I don't know if there is...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    I wonder why the WIEGAND didn't help with the rescue and coast guard, or maybe it did?
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    Do they think we're idiots!

    Before we scrap the concept of wind power altogether, maybe there's a way to satisfy all the relevant interests? For example, due primarily to land and off shore wind generation, Scotland generates much more power than it consumes, exporting large amounts of electricity to other parts of the UK...
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    I finally found a type of Ice Fishing I may consider -Halibut Fishing!!

    how did they get the hole big enough to fit the fish, without crashing through?
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    2025 Hudson River Striped Bass was poor

    "I do agree that the spring spawn North of the GW needs to be protected as well as the Raritan Bay area where alot of those big females start feeding in spring" We don't know whether a female, caught and released, will then spawn, or take a pass!
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    The movie comes at you so fast, and is so startling, there's not enough time to assess what's going on!
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    New England codfish helped feed the human world for 600 years, and then in about 50, we humans killed the fishery with greed.
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    Jaws, on the other hand, in retrospect, has to be one of the stupidest movies of all time. I read the book 50 years ago and cannot recall how it differed from the movie. The premise of the movie is that a giant shark has decided to stay inshore in the shallow water and feed on humans. So what...
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    Cod, by Mark Kurlansky, is a fantastic book. He explains how for 600 years, cod from the Grand Banks helped feed much of the Western World, including most of the slaves working the sugar fields in the Caribbean. That's why salt cod is part of the national dish of Jamacia, even though they have...

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