Fishermen blast N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries over southern flounder data
“I’m laughing at some of your data,” said Russ Howard during public comment, expressing the widely held view among the commercial fishermen that the DMF numbers are not accurate. “I don’t know how many nights you’ve spent out on the sound catching flounder,” he asked rhetorically.,, The commission, a nine-member board appointed by the governor, ultimately has the final say in adopting any amendments to the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan (FMP). >click to read< 08:49
It is all bull crap these people making the rules probably never comical fishes before or had to fish to put food on there table to feed there families or try to pay there bills I keep hoping one day we will get some people with some brains in there that will see that it’s not the small guy’s hurting the fisheries but the big trawlers out there