Originally Posted By: Somethingsmellsf
Those of you that think we do not already pay commercial fisherman through higher taxes, fee's or surcharges raise your hands, I thought so.

Fact is we have been paying them in-directly through lost opportunity from the federal government. ODW will use the money how they see fit just like our dept.

Anyone seen a crab audit report yet?

Of course the other option is to let the commercials continue gill netting, then we could all site back and bid on the last wild fish so that we could mount it on the wall!

Fishy


That's one scenario, the other would be to move all LCR commercial harvest to the SAFE Areas and harvest selectively, while transferring the 2% ESA mortality to the sport fleet.