wildlife commission/CCA responses

[keakar]

Originally Posted by rardoin

Don't know if 13" comm limit is accurate but I feel that it would be proper. If you have ever watched the trail of dead undersized fish drifting behind a snapper boat you would understand my viewpoint. To many wasted fish that could have counted toward the commercial total allowable catch.

agreed, so while at first glance it seams unfair to recreationals its just about stopping the waste of fish that will die if thrown back and it actually fills the commercial quotas earlier so its not any advantage for them.

for these reasons commercials are almost always allowed a certain portion of their catch to be "undersized", plus if catches are in large numbers there is always the innocent error factor where something undersized could go unseen by the fisherman