Herring are very plentiful and always have been,it's the creel survey method that is messed up and the reason surveys come up with low numbers. DEEP is afraid to ruin their nets surveying close to shore where the herring actually run so they use flawed data instead to maintain the ban on us Rec guys, but yet the big ocean ships still get to take them by the millions .
my 2 cents on the subject.
Mike - you are right and wrong at the same time.
Right that the real population slaughter is happening out in the ocean and near coastal environments.
But wrong that the numbers are flawed, the herring decline is as real as it gets. It is duplicated all up and down the eastern seaboard.
2013 will make the first year of mid water trawler regulation. Its been too long in coming,but at least its a start.
The river ban is to save the spawning population - that is why it is so critical.
Edited by swwind (05/14/1301:17 PM)
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