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Originally Posted by MakoMike
There is a good argument that catching elvers does less harm to the population than catching the eels we eat and use as bait, since so few of the elvers ever make it to adulthood anyway.
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Your kidding right? Your sounding like a confused DMF person.
No need to protect the small fish because they don't all become big fish. You will have to help me with this advanced logic.
This goes along with some recent statements (some direct quotes) I heard from DMF folks in the last year:
How about we buy back fishing licenses to see if people sell them to us?
How about we tag fish that we keep and not the ones we release?
SB populations are not down from years past, it was just we had too many back then. (seriously)
Those draggers were not probably not fishing in muskegut channel they were probably just cleaning their nets.
We monitor bunker in MA...the populations are down.
It is OK if the bulk of the quota comes from one spot...we have a quota so we don't over fish.
"we have observers, no comm fisherman is taking herring"
"Codfish have been overfished for the last 150 years"
" I sleep good at night"
I have given up on all hope for any kind of future fishery.
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