MSBA Call to Action-Save South Cape Fishing

[BassDawg]

Nice Heads up, Basic!

Thank you and will email and phone ASAP!!!

What are these A Holes thinkin? Thinkin'....................oh yeah, that would require intelligence and a scope of interest broader than one's lobbiest infested wallet. It most certainly would require these Committee members to consider future ramifications, digest present data, and research the past results of the moratoriums that are in place and working rather effectively.

Prolly too much for them to entertain in their miopic brains.................ya know, doing what's right for the environment, the fishery, and us~ the Constituency of the Commonwealth. Hell, the committee members aren't even elected are they? Coincidence that the chair of the committee to protect our fisheries is pro commercial? I THINK NOT!!

NOW, IS MOST DEFINITELY THE TIME TO STAND, SHOUT, AND SHOW our elected officials that we do not now, nor will we ever support this enfringement on a targeted species and a forage species at that!!! How else will they know that we care if we remain silent? The potential for present and future fisheries damage from a myriad of prospectives, the least of which is the bycatch devastation, is astronomical at worst and immeasurable at best!

This is akin to playing Russian roulette with an effectively managed forage whose abundance is direct evidence of the positive results gained by proactive conservation and management ~NOT, I REPEAT, NOT ~ reason to impose lesser management, looser conservation in the vein of "we've fixed it, so now let's try to break it!" by loading the roulette gun with all of the bullets.

And what is this crap about 15 days cut down to 8 days as if they are doing us a favor? The lesser of two evils need not apply here!! How's about ZERO days like before. What gives a handful of men the right to effect so many other men's lives simply because they won't work a little harder, dig a little deeper, and stay outta our inshore waters?

If the species is so hearty, stay out of the harbors and off of the shores BEEEOTCHEZ!!! Go deep, kill ya a coupla Giant Reds and be done wid it!!! Sarcasm aside, how's about diversifing your catch? If they changed our fisheries management, to a man, none would flinch and would comply wholeheartedly......for the preservation of our beloved STRYPER!!

[Flaptail]

Thanks Patrick, will get on it ASAP!!!!!!!!

[JohnR]

Patrick et al, recommendations from OutaStaters? Even though I payed taxes in the Commywealth for years I am no longer a rezident

[LeCounts1099]

What John R said... Do our out- of- Staters opinions count even slightly to these pro- Comm. non- elected "decision- makers?"

Would it help if I told them how much of my large rec. fishing travel & leisure budget used to be spent on- Cape, vs. in recent years?

Keep Commercials removing the squid & herring & pogys (and killing Bass in by- catch up there!) close to shore in that all- important zone... & allowing seals & dogfish to overpopulate & thrive... and we NY & NJ'ers will keep our disposable Rec. fishing $ in- State down here: where the bulk of the bait & Bass stayed without much reason to continue North past Block to Mishuam!

[Mr. Sandman]

The squid situation is not that good that they should be pounding them to death. I know they only live a short while ( a 18mo or so) but let them spawn before you rape the resource. Keep them off the 3 mile limit for gods sake, they will be dragging the harbors! I hope you comm R&R'ers see the greed here. Bunker boats, squid boats...taking every last bait if possible.


related topic:
This month in National Geographic there is a cover story about saving the fish world wide and look at the impact of comm fishing on a number of species. After reading that, and seeing the damaged done to the cod in the Grand Banks and tuna in the med...I have little hope.

Commerical tuna fishing today is taking more then 4X the sustainable rate in the med. They believe they took so many tuna out of the sea last year that the fishery can't recover.

There are more then 2X the number of comm fishing boats world wide required to fish the sustainable limits.

It looks really bad. They will be taking every last fish, no question.

Funny, they didn't mention the rec fishing as a problem...hmmmm.

[chief10]

patrick Thanks! emails sent.

[quick decision]

Could someone post a link so it will make it easier to send the email? I would but dont know how.

[Back Beach]

Maybe I'm slightly aloof, but it looks like a fairly non threatening issue here. They are allowing the fleet to fish an extra seven or eight days in one locale. The total landing quota, which is a coast wide quota, hasn’t changed. There is no guarantee of there being any more or less squid in the sound during the time period in question. Actually, it’s the end of the run for the most part. Check the commercial landings on DMF, and you will see that the mass landings are only a fraction of RI landings. Mass has landed about 1/8 of the RI landings year to date. Can't say the ratio will be the same at season's end, but it seems like a moot point to bitch over a week's additional fishing in one locale if there is a coast wide quota in place. The real issue is the sustainability of the coast wide number, for which I can't produce an informed argument for or against.I would direct my aggression there if the data suggested a problem with the stock numbers.Bycatch is always bad, regardless of where or when. However, it is tough to make an argument that the bycatch will go way over the normal "allowances" on account of this extension.