I absolutly agree with googanhater. I hate the fact that in RI, when commercial fisherman can only keep 5 striped bass a day, and they can only do that for a few weeks while it is open. Also, Commercial fisherman are not allowed to take stripers on friday and saturday because the charter assholes have bitched that commercial fisherman are competing for the business of the charter boats.
Now lets say that The commercial season for bass is open for 6 weeks. If I go every day and get my limit which it is not likely that I will do, but if so that means that I would take 150 fish per season.
Now lets look at the charter boat. Six people per boat, 2 fish per person per. X Two or three trips a day= 24-36 fish per day. Now lets say that that boat fishes 50 days per season. Thats 1200-1800 fish that the charter boat gets to kill per season.
Thats easy math for you. Then the charter guys, and douche bags like stripers forever get together and bitch that the commercial fishermen are killing all the stripers. Apparently they do not own a fucking calculator.
And if you do the math you will see that the #s are also off set with other species also.
There should be an annual species specific quota for all charter boats just the same as there is for the commercial fishermen. Its really not fair that the government will regulate the shit out of the guys who kill fish themselves for a living, But will let people pay people to take them out to kill the same fish with very little restriction. To the best of my knowlege the charter guys dont even have to log there catch. I think that they should have to. Just my opinion.