>>We have commercial salmon fishing and
>>sport salmon fishing. The same
>>for halibut, lobsters, crabs, clams,
>>tuna, and many other species.
>>They all co-exist. You need
>>a commercial license and you
>>can only sell to licensed
>>buyers and they are on
>>a strict quota. I never
>>hear of any abuse although
>>I'm sure it does happen,
>>but not very much.
>>
>>I suspect there isn't a whole
>>lot of public land in
>>New Jersey and that may
>>be a limiting factor as
>>to how many deer are
>>taken by sportsmen.
>>
>>I don't really care. They are
>>whitetails so it's not like
>>they are real deer
J/K
>>
>>
>>Eel
>>
>>It's written in the good Book
>>that we'll never be asked
>>to take more than we
>>can. Sounds like a good
>>plan, so bring it on!
>>
>>
>>
>
>Not a commercial fisherman, but aren't
>salmon numbers plumeting, the crab
>quotas sharply cut down, and
>most of the "commercial" fisheries
>in downward spirals? If
>I am wrong than ok,
>but once you set a
>market price, you create the
>market. I also would
>wonder about possible disease?
>We have issues from time
>to time with tainted meat,
>diseased animals, etc. in the
>domestic populations, how are they
>going to contain that with
>wildlife?
>
>Lastly UNLIKE TRISTATE, I have never
>been to New Jersey.
>I can't figure out my
>own states deer issues, I
>will stay out of New
>Jerseys. As for Utah,
>I would hate to see
>it, I believe the commercialization
>of hunting is destroying it
>enough, and thats just the
>price for inches, I can't
>imagine what happens when the
>meat becomes marketable. TRISTATE,
>glad you fixed Utah so
>you can now move on
>to New Jersey, heres to
>hoping you troll the New
>Jersey sites now, Utah is
>fixed, you can move on!!
>
>
>
>"The only thing that stops a
>bad guy with a gun
>is a good guy with
>a gun"
hossblur, it's been many years since I was a commercial fisherman. I did it for a couple seasons. It is not without its issues for sure, especially in international waters as far as over harvest goes. They are slowly making progress especially on near shore species like salmon and rock fish, and sport fishing has a much bigger voice now than in the past. California just recently made a bunch of "marine reserves" (like refuges) where no fishing is allowed, commercial or sport to help and rebuild stocks.
Parts of Alaska are struggling with their King Salmon and they are making drastic cuts to all fishing. California's King Salmon are at historic highs right now. Very, very liberal sport fishing (in lots of areas, though it varies) but still very conservative on commercial fishing. Now we have this drought, so we are all worried about the future.
Crabs are highly regulated and they have natural high and low cycles, but nobody really understands why or how. They will have 3 or 4 years of abundance followed you 2 or 3 years of low numbers, and then it repeats itself. Commercial Dungeness crabbers are limited to male crabs only and must be of a certain size. This leaves all the females and most of the males to breed. Commercial Dungeness crabbers can never deplete the resource.
Except in extreme cases like in New Jersey, (or places like Texas where it's all private property) I'm sure commercial hunting of big game is not even on the radar. When you have a line a mile long of sportsmen waiting to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a tag and not enough tags to go around, it wouldn't make much economic sense. Not to mention it would start a civil war, and I would be the first to join.
Eel
It's written in the good Book that we'll never be asked to take more than we can. Sounds like a good plan, so bring it on!