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When “free” isn’t freeBy Candus Thomson, Outdoors
Baltimore Sun, June 18, 2010
So New York lawmakers and leaders of the Recreational Fishing Alliance are drooling all over themselves because the state Senate passed a bill to repeal its $10 saltwater fishing license and replace it with a free angler registry.
As Bugs Bunny would say, “What a bunch of maroons.”
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States Schedule Hearings on Striped Bass Commercial Increase: Public Comment Accepted Until Oct 1States Schedule Hearings on Striped Bass Draft Addendum II: Public Comment Accepted Until October 1Read original article
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STRIPED BASS TAKE A BEATING IN NY-BIGHT EEZAn unsustainable number of pre-spawn bass are being slaughtered in an illegal fishery, and law enforcement could care less.Read original article
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ASMFC Continues Effort to Increase Commercial Bass HarvestGamble to increase commercial take by up to 50 percent heads for public hearingsRead original article
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ASMFC Approves Commercial Increase Addendum for Public CommentSee below… Fishing hard and trying to keep my head above water at my day job, so no time to comment in detail on this right now, but any regular reader of this column knows what the deal is.
Very quickly, before reading the below press release, keep in mind that there is some new news [...]Read original article
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MORE BAD NEWS FOR STRIPED BASS…Well… I can’t say I didn’t see it coming. Yesterday, the ASMFC Striped Bass Management Board passed a motion by a narrow 8 to 7 margin to create an addendum to increase commercial harvest.Read original article
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