Golden Tiles, Snowy Grouper Closure June 7th

[email protected] Special

OK, so what a great golden tile season, we apparently have caught our 3019 goldens, and our 523 Snowy Groupers to we are done!

For myself, this has been the best Golden Tile fishing I have experienced in over 20 years. The fish were there, they bit on any tide, and the size was better than ever. At least they closed the commercials also. What do they get, 1000 times what we get?

And how the heck is Snowy grouper still pen for commercial fishing. We get only 523 of those fish and the comms can keep harvesting them?

What part of this makes sense? If we only get 523 snowys, how can that stock support any kind of commercial fishery.

Remember those numbers are for the entire SAFMC area of responsibility.

abovebored

While it is inequitable for sure, it is notable that the commercial limit for snoweys is only 100 lbs per trip. Hardly enough to cover operating costs of a commercial fishing vessel.

ANUMBER1

[email protected] Special wrote: »

OK, so what a great golden tile season, we apparently have caught our 3019 goldens, and our 523 Snowy Groupers to we are done!

For myself, this has been the best Golden Tile fishing I have experienced in over 20 years. The fish were there, they bit on any tide, and the size was better than ever. At least they closed the commercials also. What do they get, 1000 times what we get?

And how the heck is Snowy grouper still pen for commercial fishing. We get only 523 of those fish and the comms can keep harvesting them?

What part of this makes sense? If we only get 523 snowys, how can that stock support any kind of commercial fishery.

Remember those numbers are for the entire SAFMC area of responsibility.

How is it that recs get to fish for trout 24/7 all year and com's only get 5 months?

Good for the goose, good for the gander.

[email protected] Special

Certainly Snowies are a bycatch not a target species for the comms, now Goldens, another story with the BLL sets getting upwards of 3000 lbs per set.

drgibby

Seems to be a repeating theme, don`t look for logic, where logic does not exist...........