It is a good thing the tuna have good eyesight..... the better to dodge gillnets and draggers. I was on the bank on tuesday, and it looked like the middle of july, except replace the tuna trollers with draggers. I counted 17 draggers there in the morning. It is like they own a 1 mile radius around the bank, then the gillnetters own from the the 1 mile mark to shore. What is the cutoff line on stellwagen that marks the "sanctuary". I watched one eastern trawler come up the rise close to the 100 foot mark on the nwc. Item 2 is striper bycatch. It has to be pretty aggressive, as everyone knows there are a ton of bass on the bank and bass gill pretty easy. I'm curious how many fishery managers were out there observing the scene. An idiot could surmise that if you pound the snot out of a piece of earth like that, it will not thrive......on top of that, I'm sure when that volume of fish hits the market, the price drops to nothing and they caught 2x the # of fish for less total money |