ASMFC Striped Bass Draft Addendum III - Plain English Summary

[OVERBORED]

@OVERBORED Why should anyone have the right to board you for no reason at all? You can't do that in Florida and there is finally some discussion about stopping it here. Also Florida's ocean facing shoreline is 10x that of NY. we're comparing apples to oranges.

Fishing regulations are basically an honor system. Either you follow the rules or you don't. No amount of enforcement will ever change that.

Besides, enforcement doesn't do anything to get us more fish. It only gives us less freedoms. It's not added in anywhere in any of the numbers. So sadly it just doesn't matter.

Freedoms......what a joke.

Stop and see frisk was the single biggest deterrent of crime in NYC but unfortunately couldn't survive the liberal axe.

Being stopped and questioned by a boat with 6 armed federalies in Panama was a fairly good deterrent.

Getting boarded is not such a big deal as you make it out to be. It's the only thing we have that could possibly prevent complete anarchy on the water.

But this is about Striped Bass and the inevitable closure that is being faced. In all the years of regulations were still at this point 30 years later. Who messed up the management and why do they continue calling the shots? Maybe that's the first question we should be asking.

 

[hawk375]

sorry overboard a commercial share is 168 fish for year

 

[OVERBORED]

sorry overboard a commercial share is 168 fish for year

I know many recs that take that many fish and more so what's your point?