All crabs harvested for biomedical purposes may only be sold to dealers authorized to purchase crabs harvested for biomedical purposes. How many hundreds/ thousands of breeder stripers are taken in the canal during the May / June moon tides ! We expect the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will also take action this year to implement coastwide conservation measures for 2020 aimed at reducing overall fishing mortality. No tag; fish gets confiscate and fine is issued. For the commercial fisheries along the coast, this means an 18% cut to the state-by-state commercial quotas. Follow the $. It drives me crazy when I see people land fish w bait off the beach and they just DRAG the fish onto the beach. fishing permit ten dollars you can fish seven days aweek even a lake permit is thirty dollars. The prohibition on gaffing undersized striped bass (as opposed to all striped bass) takes into consideration safety concerns associated with expediently removing large striped bass from the water. Your feedback will not receive a response. This form only gathers feedback about the website. Grab it by the bottom jaw, remove the hook, and set it on its way. Do you really need that look at me I caught a fish picture, really… c’mon nobody really cares but you and its not worth risking killing the fish over it. How much do you agree with the following statements in the scale of 1, Strongly Disagree, to 5, Strongly Agree? Consider that the recreational fishery harvests about 10 times that of the commercial fishery and will kill more large striped bass by means of catch and release mortality than the commercial fishery will harvest. More needs to be done. Please what a joke. When I started Spring was an exciting time and used to catch and release tons of fish. Get in touch today. Scumbag. A hook is considered to be an in-line circle hook only if it is manufactured so the barb of the hook is in-line with the shank and bend of the hook and is turned perpendicularly back to the shank to form a circular or oval shape (see image below). Striper fishing was unreal when the minimum size was 36 inches and you could only keep one fish. There are no closed fishing days during the springtime small mesh squid trawl fishery, whereas during the summertime large trawl fishery, the retention and landing of black sea bass may occur Sundays - Thursdays, consistent with the open fishing days for summer flounder. And yet according to MA. End of story. Aggregate landings of black sea bass by trawlers fishing in the springtime small mesh trawl squid fishery are capped at 50,000 pounds; if that cap is reached then the retention and landing of black sea bass is prohibited. officers. Total Bullshit! Seriously folks, I know that stripers are the big thing up here in the northeast, but stop eating these PCB and dioxin factories; I sea strong warnings about eating these fish from various credible sources. Everyone here complains about commercial, most not all commercial guys feed their families on this, ya we are allowed a 15 fish limit but we dont hit that on the 2 days a week we are allowed with fish 34”+ i can tell you 30-50 fish a day were being boated between 30-33” fish its a healthy stock just not of commercial size, guys in the canal were pulling out more fish than the commercial guys that were of size, theres so many things that go into it, dont point fingers but weigh it all out, seals, great whites, poachers you name it, i was fishing canal while boat was being repaired and there was “runners” just walking back n fourth carrying fish to cars taking way over the limit from out of state people, yes i called but not much was done, we all want the fishery to grow but theres so many different issues causing it, everyone needs to do their part. Consult 322 CMR 4.02 and 6.43 for more details. Stay bent and save fishing before its ruined for everyone. And the best way to protect s species is to just catch it and let it go. Truly entertaining to read all these comments from people with no statistical research to back up their hot tempered opinions. Commercial guys need to stop telling themselves that they “own” all the fish in the ocean and stop gaslighting everyone else about “feeding their families”. They don’t enforce hardly anything. How about closing the canal to all possession? The worst part about surf fishing is watching people mistreat the fish by taking pictures of them having them die soon after the picture is taken or actually mistreating the fish because they are angry that the fish wasn’t a keeper. A bunch of sports in pontoon boats masquerading as commercial fisherman. Early one spring the ‘trash’ boats, New Jersey registrations, came up the sound from Gay Head to towards Nantucket. Would have like to see all use of gaffs removed. All Rights Reserved, 2020 Striped Bass Regulations At A Glance. 7) When the tautog fishery is open, private anglers are subject to 10-fish maximum tautog limit for the vessel. However, fishermen fishing under the authority of a commercial boat permit or lobster permit when fishing from another location (e.g., shore or another vessel) are subject to the 2-fish limit. When Florida and Louisiana got serious about redfish, they instituted a slot limit that protected the larger fish and it has been successful. Give this species and Menhaden a break. Regulators and commercial advocates can talk all they want about recreational release mortality being a huge contributing factor. gov the MA commercial striper fishermen will be able to keep 15/ day with a minimum of 34”. However, states have the option to implement regulations that are approved to be “conservationally equivalent.” Conservation equivalency is a hallmark of most Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission interstate plans to allow states flexibility to develop alternative regulations that address local differences while still achieving the goals and objectives of the FMP. I’m glad you don’t live next door to me. Last year I caught a 42” , it was awesome. By Nichola Meserve, Fisheries Policy Analyst. 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, www.mass.gov/recreational-saltwater-fishing. Catch and release stripers on whole east coast for 5 years and heavily reduce commercial limit , takes 6 years for a fish to get 28 inches, need drastic change. Just how far will we allow this to go?? Fishermen fishing under the authority of a commercial boat permit or lobster permit when fishing aboard the vessel named on the permit are subject to the 15-fish limit. I have been fishing for forty years have landed a 49 lb bass. By the way, recreational charters that kill multiple fish aren’t helping the cause, even if most of them follow the set rules, too. spawning, should be done on a tag only basis. How making the same laws that are applied up north for the south? They should have raised the minimum. People need to be educated on how to properly release fish, especially little schoolies. I totally agree. Hopefully, it’s not you. I would have preferred if they raised the minimum length to 30 but still allow us to keep larger fish. So basically if there are 10,000 fisherman taking 1 per day over 150 days that number =1.5 million fish in 1 year from 1 state. If you can catch that big fish and let it go. The trip limit for P1 starts at 1,000 pounds and is reduced to 100 lbs once 25% of the quota is landed. immediately, just like deer. GD. We anticipate that some recreational fishermen will question why the commercial fishery continues to target larger fish when they are prohibited from doing the same with the new recreational slot limit. And for the life of me I don’t understand why they limit one group and on the other hand allow another group to target the prime breeding stock. Rec guys need to get informed and own up to the fact that rec fishing kills many, many more fish than commercial fishing does – and if you persist in believing otherwise, you are poorly informed, lying to advance your own cause, or both. Just put a slot limit in or shut it down for a bit. If you would like to continue helping us improve Mass.gov, join our user panel to test new features for the site. When was there a shortage of bluefish? I’ve got hundreds of bass with J hooks and maybe gut hooked 5. I live on Cape Cod. Remember that line when you want to go Cod fishing……. It’s senseless. Why not make it mandatory lures should be single hook ,not multiple treble. Rec fishing under 28 allowed. and unnecessary. New Striped bass regulations. The directed trap and hook and line summertime fishery opens on the first open fishing day after July 8th and remains open until the annual quota has been landed. Anyone know if my reels are ready to be picked up. Required fields are marked *, Copyright © 2020 On The Water, LLC. Take the guns away from law abiding citizens and slap the non abiding on the hand. This page, Commercial finfish regulations, is. That’s when the stripers started dissappearing as well as the blues. Official 2020 Massachusetts Saltwater Fishing rules & regulations. Technically, you could have gaffed undersized fish in a “non-lethal way,” such as by lip-gaffing, and then released them. I’m willing to believe that most commercial guys follow the law, but sorry, this garbage happens. So this reminds me of the 2nd amendment. GREG METCALF-South Shore Massachusetts to Maine September 28, 2020 - 09:51:49 Tuna were all over the surface from 5 miles offshore to Stellwagen Bank this past week. Been fishing since 1963 now it’s 2020 fisherman nowadays don’t respect the sport striped bass fishing to all you selfish son of a bitches put the fish back in the ocean if you’re hungry go to the market wake up you’re ruining things for your kids and Future Kids PS don’t leave your garbage there EITHER WTF!!! now multiply that X 1000’s of fisherman. The 3-member Massachusetts delegation to the ASMFC supported the selection of the 28–35” recreational slot limit during Addendum VI’s passage. A hook is considered to be an in-line circle hook only if it is manufactured so the barb of the hook is in-line with the shank and bend of the hook and is turned perpendicularly back to the shank to form a circular or oval shape (see image below). However, the combined landings of all fish weirs are subject to a 300,000-pound annual quota allocation.