2007 Fluke Regs/Options

[macojoe]

Here in Ma, the rec really take it hard!!

17 1/2 is a good size fish and are getting hard to come by!! Then they only get 7 fish!!

I am commercial Hook & liner, I can have 14" fish and 200 # a day. This was a easy task a few years.

But for some reason a few years ago they started letting the dragger's inside the 3 mile limit and it has been down hill ever since!

Now they want to and will start a Salt fishing Lic. It will pass cause the Fed's are pushing, and the State is against, but when push comes to shove the state will do it cause if its going to happen then the state wants the money!!

I have said on other boards and i will say it here, I will be in jail before I ever pay for a salt lic!! I already pay for boat reg, trailer reg, tax on both, and pay to use the ramps!!

What are they going to do with the money they collect?? Are we going to get more access to the water? Are we going to get more boat ramps? Are we going to get more of the quota?? Are they going to protect then inshore fishery were all us REC fish, which they now allow the dragger's to kill everything in site?

No sir!! I am not paying one cent for my god given right to fish in a free ocean, for wild fish!!

Not as long as the allow dragger's to keep rapeing the ocean! I have been to the meetings were the drag guys say they can catch the year qouta in a week if they were allowed to!