01-10-2004, 05:39 AM
Hi there theangler,
As usual, you bring a valid and intersting perspective to the issue at hand.
In the Winter season this year and from on now the Calico bass and Sand bass will be the mainstay species for our Los Angeles/Long Beach area fishery.
My position is that, even with the low angler numbers, we can not afford to take boat limits of the fish every trip. Especially if the new guys insist on keeping the breeders!! Are you going to ask a guy that has only caught 3 or 4 fish to return the 1 or 2 breeders that he (invariably) lucked out and caught!
The system until now is based on the fact that half the boat gets their limits and the other do this and that. The commercial fisheries do not specifically target the fish we're going after as the fishery is not that self-sustaining so we're ok their but NOT EVERYONE ever truly gets limits or expects it.
If the boat does get limits don't you think there will be some (unspoken) resentment thought by the newbies that are offered fish for a price?
Don't you think the crew whats 1) income in a lean time, 2) return customers taking fish home?
Here's another fine point. If I give fish to a guy that is too cheap to have it cleaned by the crew (no cleaning fee) do you think the crew is happy about that? If I think about giving fish to strangers,if they approach me, I ask.... are you going to have your fish cleaned? If they say no, no fish! Does that make me the bad guy? NOT!
Still lots of issues here.
JapanRon
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