EEZ??

Special K · 02-10-2008, 11:18 AM

more of a question about the EEZ......

what is the purpose......

how were the lines decided?

it seems very easy to cross into the EEZ while otherwise legally fishing for stripers..

CaptDom · 02-10-2008, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Special K

it seems very easy to cross into the EEZ while otherwise legally fishing for stripers..

Understatement...look at the transit one has to make to fish legal areas not in the EEZ of Montauk/Block Island, if leaving from numerous ports in CT and MA...

tunaless · 02-10-2008, 11:56 AM

The Montauk guys had some issues, both the day fishing and the night eeling, as the sub buoy area is fished pretty hard at times. They were picking boats off pretty aggressively in the early fall, and had a consistent presence. For so many yrs, there was no enforcement.

I like the eez rule, mainly because it gives the bass a place of reduced pressure. I say reduced, because guys still fish there. 2 yrs ago the fly rodders were targeting the bass on stellwagen for a good month (catch and release), last yr, the # of guys changing over to jigging in june quadrupled. The bass were so thick, all the chatter was how annoying the bass were hitting the squid bars in 160 ft of water. You drift the eastern edge of the nwc, it looked like cod on sandeels, it was all bass. Maybe the bass are starting to fill the void left by the cod offshore, as the inshore herring population starts to stabilize during the summer months (shut down of M.W. Trawling in 1a). At the same time, we had no real run of "mackeral bass" on the north shore of mass in june. The pogies were left unmolested from may to july in the harbors......... I digress, I have no clue why the eez was created.

02-10-2008, 11:18 AM	#1
Special K NBS Member User Gallery Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: tolland & mystic Posts: 365	EEZ?? more of a question about the EEZ...... what is the purpose...... how were the lines decided? it seems very easy to cross into the EEZ while otherwise legally fishing for stripers..

02-10-2008, 11:56 AM	#3
tunaless NBS Member User Gallery Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: marblehead Posts: 18	eez The Montauk guys had some issues, both the day fishing and the night eeling, as the sub buoy area is fished pretty hard at times. They were picking boats off pretty aggressively in the early fall, and had a consistent presence. For so many yrs, there was no enforcement. I like the eez rule, mainly because it gives the bass a place of reduced pressure. I say reduced, because guys still fish there. 2 yrs ago the fly rodders were targeting the bass on stellwagen for a good month (catch and release), last yr, the # of guys changing over to jigging in june quadrupled. The bass were so thick, all the chatter was how annoying the bass were hitting the squid bars in 160 ft of water. You drift the eastern edge of the nwc, it looked like cod on sandeels, it was all bass. Maybe the bass are starting to fill the void left by the cod offshore, as the inshore herring population starts to stabilize during the summer months (shut down of M.W. Trawling in 1a). At the same time, we had no real run of "mackeral bass" on the north shore of mass in june. The pogies were left unmolested from may to july in the harbors......... I digress, I have no clue why the eez was created.

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