04-20-2011, 12:05 PM
I appreciate the response and explination. It seems your area council is far more squared away than ours. (SAFMC) I've met them, and they are idiots that take wild guesses.
We recently went through a ban on black sea bass, in the form of a closed season during the PRIME months to catch them; if for no other reason, they were one of the few species in our area that could be targeted in the winter months. This ticked off A LOT of anglers, commercial and recreational alike. We had to protest and raise hell, and now they are going to pull the closed season, and just reduce the catch limit. (which is what they should have done to begin with) The BSB population is not depleted to begin with.
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We recently went through a ban on black sea bass, in the form of a closed season during the PRIME months to catch them; if for no other reason, they were one of the few species in our area that could be targeted in the winter months. This ticked off A LOT of anglers, commercial and recreational alike. We had to protest and raise hell, and now they are going to pull the closed season, and just reduce the catch limit. (which is what they should have done to begin with) The BSB population is not depleted to begin with.
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