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Surfratiam

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  1. 3 hours ago, TimS said:

    Because "they" are established in NJ - "they" have roots in every piece of management in NJ. I don't know of anyone that has tried to take a seat away from an RFA plant. I honestly threw up my hands at NJ fisheries management the last time I started researching the people sitting on NJ's various management boards. Way too many of them were involved with the RFA....either previous members or contributors or rec industry business owners that pay the RFA like boat builders, engine builders, marinas, engine rebuilders, fuel docks, etc, etc. I don't know anyone that's willing to fight against the money to possibly get one seat at an industry owned board or committee. It would be a waste of time, even if you succeeded, you'd be alone for every vote. No thank you. Life is too short.

     

    So here's hoping the rest of the ASMFC continues to realize how absurd NJ's representation is - almost NONE of NJ's angers are represented by the fish hungry, anti-conservation folks representing NJ at the ASMFC. None. When NJ's representation speaks at the ASMFC, it's the RFA or JCAA and various fishing industries speaking...it has nothing to do with our anglers. So we ask the ASMFC to just thumb your noses and keep on doing the right thing :th: 

    Bingo. RFA does not represent anglers like us in any way. And the JCAA….. well I dislike them a lot. 
    Both groups have no interest in increasing  the Striped Bass bio mass. 
    I dislike both groups with passion. 
     

  2. 1. Should have been enforced January 1 2023, they are stupid, late.

    2. If its that bad, which it is, Moratorium, C and R 100%.

    3. New Jersey sucks, should not be allowed to keep a bass for 10 years!!

    4. New Jersey sucks, should not be allowed to keep a bass for 10 years!!

    5. What is better to increase striped bass population, 1 bass 38" or larger or the slot 28" - 31", cause the slot seems to me to target a class of fish that we are basing the recovery on. And that would continue the inept management.

     

    Absolutely disgusted with Jersey always voting against reducing the killing of bass, kudos for the elimination of commercial fishing in Jersey, but the new appointee from Jersey to the ASMFC supposedly has a commercial fishing background.

     

  3. 4 mins ago, JerseyJeb said:

    I didn't take the original post to be only referring to illegal spots. I think its more stupid of people promoting the night bite for $$$ at spots where people aren't legally allowed to be, then someone talking while outside...

    Yup, crazy stupid. Hurts everyone who keeps their mouths shut. 

  4. 1 min ago, bbfish said:

     

    So you'd rather them form crowds in parking lots were not supposed to be in?  

    Yes. How stupid are they staying and talking in a place they aren’t supposed to be. Yes, get the place shut down if they are to stupid to realize  how stupid they are and you others don’t have the balls to do something about it. 

  5. 1 min ago, bbfish said:

     

    Drives me nuts man.  I'm not much of a talker, fishing or not, and I appreciate that some people use fishing as a social time, but chew the fat out on the water, not while sitting on your tailgate in a soon to be shut down parking lot.  

    100% disagree with you. 
    Shut the F up on the water. Only thing worse than a chatterbox out there at 2:00 am is a chatterbox with a white light. 
    I’m with Goldy on this F to just about everyone. 

  6. 30 mins ago, Potato Caboose said:

    Not a report just some info

     

    In a surprising move, N.J. Governor Phillip Murphy has replaced Tom Fote as the state’s governor’s appointee to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) with a lobbyist, Jeffry Kaelan, for Lund’s Fisheries in Cape May.

    Fote has been serving in that voluntary position under governors of both parties almost continuously since 1990. He was in a position to provide the huge amount of time involved because he’s a disabled Vietnam veteran living on a pension that doesn’t permit any other working income. As a longtime officer of the Jersey Coast Anglers Association, he’s been involved with fisheries conservation issues for decades. Furthermore, his long tenure at the ASMFC put N.J. in a strong position within the association as “knowing where the bodies are buried” is often the difference between success and failure during fisheries debates.

    Worst of all, Fote’s replacement isn’t another strong conservationist, but rather a man on the pay roll of a powerful commercial fishing business. Kaelin would be well qualified to serve as the state’s commercial member on the delegation — but not as one representing the public,

    Tom Fote was a complete enemy of striped bass conservation. Sounds  like Mr Kaelin could actually be worse. When will we get a representative for the recreational fisherman instead of the charter and party boat owners, (for hire group) like Fote. To say Fote was a conservationist is plain whacky. This state sucks. 

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