wildlife commission/CCA responses

[slickfish]

Originally Posted by KDM

As I said about a month ago "those of you who doubt CCA's concern for our resources just sit tight".

He said sit tight. Lmao. Actions have already spoken for themselves. Not impressed. Donate an wait!!!!

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by eman

You also omitted ,Pushed to kill bow fishing for red fish state wide in 2012.

Do you have some links or some paper trail I can use to add this to my verified list?

I've found lots of discussion forum stuff from 2010, but nothing from 2012. I also like to have something either from the LWF Commission Meeting Minutes, from CCA themselves, or from a reliable news source before considering reports to be verified.

[cgoods17]

Can anybody shed some light on something.....

I heard over the weekend talking to a commercial shrimper and snapper fisherman, since he was a commercial fisherman, his size limit for snapper was 13" instead of 16" as for us recreational..

Is this true?

[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.

[BROWN FIN]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

Can anybody shed some light on something.....

I heard over the weekend talking to a commercial shrimper and snapper fisherman, since he was a commercial fisherman, his size limit for snapper was 13" instead of 16" as for us recreational..

Is this true?

True. Do to death mortality ratio the gomfmc came up with.

[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