Mike Powers wrote <We need a Maine-style slot limit (20"-26", or 40"+), we need to get the Mid Atlantic states to knock it off with the 18" fish, and we need to get North Carolina
out of the haul seining business.>
Good Luck! The slot limit is the only item mentioned that the Mass Division of Marine Fisheries has any control over, and if you remember last year's hearing in Goucester, I stood up and recommended just that. I was soundly ridiculed by Phil Coates. Not
by the other members of the Commission, just by him. The ASMFC is where the big business gets done and where the make-or-break decisions are made. Massachusetts, and whether we stay at status quo or go to 2 at 28" is small-potatoes in the scheme of things
.