I think maybe go here and see some facts:
http://www.asmfc.org/ click on interstate fisheries management, then Atlantic menhaden.....
You still fail to see my point about fish kills and clean water so.....
Go here
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1141680.html
HYPOTHETICALLYLet's just say that for arguements sake the bill passes, and no more seining. The let's say also that NO other commercial fisherman
net them using other deadly methods( can you say GILL NETS) and of course the recreational sector wants to protect them so they turn to other baits to buy in the local baitshops and do not get unlimited amounts for themselves and their friends; so the menhaden, the great saviors of the Bay
are left alone to filter our already incredibly clean and clear Bay. Then let's say the same wacky science Gibson quotes sees another record juvenile pogie(pnut bunker) run, and they all rendezvous up past Providence point and Greenwich bay, etc.........
Any clearer?
I guess I also still don't see any baitshops not carrying fresh pogies this season, so my next question is, where will they get them from???
Nevermind all the political BS and backdoor tactics being attempted by various(nefarious) groups.