HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
The quota is reduced for everyone.
The commercial season is going to be shorter than it was last year. That was already in the FMP guidelines.
All of this was already in the FMP that was adopted that created last years reductions. This happening was in writing two or three years ago. The FMP has targets in that can not be met in a one year time frame, so you get increasing regulations until those targets are met. All of it is based on data that is two or three years old. Any positive results because of last years changes won’t even make it into this discussion for a couple more years.
The CCA crowd got recs to raise hell about the flounder fishery and they got exactly what was asked for. Reduced harvest.
So you actually think they will give back they take? I've not saw an increase in any species once they take numbers