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Recreational fishermen screwed again.

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Just read on web site Island Breeze , Hatteras , NOAA Fisheries just released time slot rec. fishermen can fish for red snapper. Rec fishermen can only fish for red snapper the 10 th July and 11 th. Two whole days . Can only keep one fish . Commercial fishermen can fish from july 11 th through Jan. 01 2023. Roughly 5 1/2 months. Can keep like 24000 fish. Are you pissed yet ?
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“Then look up "online pound net map >yourstate".

I’ve tried searching these terms and varients and found nothing. Can you post a link?
“Then look up "online pound net map >yourstate".

I’ve tried searching these terms and varients and found nothing. Can you post a link?
I was using the wrong search engine. My preferred duckduckgo, yielded nothing. Google found some links but not many maps except for Maryland. I was surprised to find out that this commercial method has been heavily deployed since the 1800’s. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0843871420974064

Years ago when I was shore fishing at Carolina Beach I met an old timer who had a strong opinion the Carolinas depleted fishing was primarily due to Chinese overfishing. He explained that they were using fishing nets that were at least 7 miles wide pulled along by several fishing ships each. And that they were skirting North Carolina’s state waters. I’m sure that’s a reason that we’ve all heard before. But it’s known now that the Chinese are doing very much the same all around the South Pacific.
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