I'm an old man and I started fishing the Roanoke when Moby Dick was a minnow. Today is not the first time the rockfish had low spawn rates. Fish that are tagged in the Roanoke have been caught in other states. This is a multi state issue. I like the closed season. It works. In the late 70s the state of Maryland completely stopped the possession of rockfish, restaurants, fish markets, hook and line guy and commercial. It worked. Stocks came back. Suck it up and go without keeping a rockfish for a year. The fishery needs help!!!
I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. How many of the stripper’s fry are killed in trawler nets as by catch? Strippers travel through many states jurisdictions and stopping fishing for them in NC alone will do nothing to help the stocks recover. It’s time to stop the runoff pollution into the estuaries these fry depend on at the beginning of their lives and keep trawlers nets from killing them when they head for open waters. As far as not returning, once the trawlers have destroyed the bait fish stocks in an area the predator fish have no reason to return. STRIPPERS FOLLOW THE BAIT, NO BAIT NO STRIPPERS!
I'm an old man and I started fishing the Roanoke when Moby Dick was a minnow. Today is not the first time the rockfish had low spawn rates. Fish that are tagged in the Roanoke have been caught in other states. This is a multi state issue. I like the closed season. It works. In the late 70s the state of Maryland completely stopped the possession of rockfish, restaurants, fish markets, hook and line guy and commercial. It worked. Stocks came back. Suck it up and go without keeping a rockfish for a year. The fishery needs help!!!
I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. How many of the stripper’s fry are killed in trawler nets as by catch? Strippers travel through many states jurisdictions and stopping fishing for them in NC alone will do nothing to help the stocks recover. It’s time to stop the runoff pollution into the estuaries these fry depend on at the beginning of their lives and keep trawlers nets from killing them when they head for open waters. As far as not returning, once the trawlers have destroyed the bait fish stocks in an area the predator fish have no reason to return. STRIPPERS FOLLOW THE BAIT, NO BAIT NO STRIPPERS!