Angler Participation Needed

When government officials tell us that we need to catch fewer of a certain fish species, so they’re going to whack our size or creel limits, we fishermen often react negatively. Unless it’s a species that has nearly vanished, like striped bass in the 1980s, we usually tend to grouse at the idea of being told we can take home fewer fish and we tend to instantly chalk the individuals who make such decision up as jerks, fools, crooks or, most commonly, a combination of the three.

The Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, the agency that sets the coastwide limits on fluke, black sea bass and porgy, has been the butt of many of these criticisms, barbs, attacks and epithets in the last several years. And, not surprisingly, they don’t like it.... more