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CMP - 12/26/2006 6:04 PM I'd like to see that herring fleet on the bottom... CMP
'That herring fleet' is providing much needed jobs here,suppling the local lobster/sportfishing fleet with bait, taking a fraction of the herring the overseas boats took before the 200 mile limit was enacted!
The jobs you talk about are decimating every other fishery in the local area I use to be able to catch my supply of bait every spring now I cannnot because of these boats that take not only sea herring but the river herring that swim with them while they mature
If you knew how it was done in the old days you'd see that alot more people we employed making good money That also required skills now it doesn't
Jay I always admire your pics but defending the very boats that are wiping out the food base that feeds the whole northeastern fishery???
Don't you remember seeing GBFT at the mouth of the harbor when you were a kid or hundereds of schools of bft every morning on the way to the ledge for groundfish I do
The AtlantiCat is at Wentworth in Newcastle, NH. I saw her this afternoon at 4:35 pm on the transient slip behind 2 of the "Star" headboats on my way to cocktails with some buds. All went well...
ubettcha13 - 12/27/2006 6:37 PM The jobs you talk about are decimating every other fishery in the local area I use to be able to catch my supply of bait every spring now I cannnot because of these boats that take not only sea herring but the river herring that swim with them while they mature If you knew how it was done in the old days you'd see that alot more people we employed making good money That also required skills now it doesn't Jay I always admire your pics but defending the very boats that are wiping out the food base that feeds the whole northeastern fishery??? Don't you remember seeing GBFT at the mouth of the harbor when you were a kid or hundereds of schools of bft every morning on the way to the ledge for groundfish I do
Since I posted this I've had a talk with a local fisherman and he filled me in on some facts I didn't know. But it sure seems to me with the time these vessels spend tied-up vs days at sea they could hardly put a "dent" into the herring fishery. Look at the pier in the pics above again...it looks clean as a whistle,the fish never see the light of day by being "sucked" from the boat to the processor.
Soon the vessels will be re-geared for mackeral, targeted for the mid-Atlantic.
CMP - 12/26/2006 6:04 PM I'd like to see that herring fleet on the bottom... CMP
'That herring fleet' is providing much needed jobs here,suppling the local lobster/sportfishing fleet with bait, taking a fraction of the herring the overseas boats took before the 200 mile limit was enacted!
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Care to share some of those facts Jay? I have a fact for you, try to catch a herring in Area 1A after those boats have beat the snot out of that area! The fact is, there are none. You are right Jay, they don't put a "dent" in the Herring fishery, they mop it up! I think it's great that they will be a little futher offshore this year where they belong and hopfully a even futher offshore next year! JMHO Pictures 1,2,3 and 5 are great! The others well........
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