Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
I have always only dealt with hunting with MDWFA and MD sportsmen back in the day. The thing about hunting is it is all for sport and there is not money to be made from it. You can't sell venison, duck, goose, squirrel and rabbit to the restaurants. this make things simpler.
This is where fishing and the regulations goes sideways. Commercial interests always pay favorite. The DNR needs to make decisions based on the "resource" they are managing and not on the people that want to catch them and possibly sell them. But, as you know in this state, if there is money to be made, there is a a lobbyist to push for it. You all may think the DNR is powerful, but they bend fast to political pressure as they do not have the right to fight the legislature or the governor. They have to move inside the lines and the former two can move the lines or them. Their hands are tied many times. I know guys fighting the fight on the fishing front and its an ugly business.
Fishing regulations is like a barrel full of monkeys. Pull one way and there is 5 other ways pulling back. No concern for the resources or the stock. Just our Profit or our limits. The next moratorium is in your future because the selfishness can't be controlled. We have seen it with rockfish and canadian geese before and both are coming full circle to another one because no one can say "Enough, What is best for the game animal"
I think I'll go fishing for blues, as I can catch a bunch of them. Maybe smoke them. Yea, that sounds good!
This is where fishing and the regulations goes sideways. Commercial interests always pay favorite. The DNR needs to make decisions based on the "resource" they are managing and not on the people that want to catch them and possibly sell them. But, as you know in this state, if there is money to be made, there is a a lobbyist to push for it. You all may think the DNR is powerful, but they bend fast to political pressure as they do not have the right to fight the legislature or the governor. They have to move inside the lines and the former two can move the lines or them. Their hands are tied many times. I know guys fighting the fight on the fishing front and its an ugly business.
Fishing regulations is like a barrel full of monkeys. Pull one way and there is 5 other ways pulling back. No concern for the resources or the stock. Just our Profit or our limits. The next moratorium is in your future because the selfishness can't be controlled. We have seen it with rockfish and canadian geese before and both are coming full circle to another one because no one can say "Enough, What is best for the game animal"
I think I'll go fishing for blues, as I can catch a bunch of them. Maybe smoke them. Yea, that sounds good!