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Lobster decline? Not here, NJ fishermen say |
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BELMAR — New Jersey fishermen said they don’t see the steep decline in lobster populations reported in Long Island Sound and southern New England, or the need for plans that could cut their catches by 10 percent — or even shut them down for five years.
“We shouldn’t be balled up into someone else’s problems. I’ve never seen so many small lobsters,” said Joseph Horvath Jr. He brought photographs of lobster traps stuffed with “baby lobsters the size of a dollar bill” to a public hearing here Thursday — a preliminary step before regulators vote in Boston Nov. 7 on big changes to East Coast lobster management. Read the complete story from The Daily Record.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
