Lucky13

Yes, I think your idea of a "token" increase to help create positive spin has merit, but please remember that I'm one of the people who worries that these levels of adjustment may actually be insufficient to restore stability to the herring population. I contacted MCFAB about changing their meeting so that members of that board can attend. It should be an interesting meeting if we can get more people out than were there last year.

Thanks, Jerry.

2018 Stocking levels http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/111196.html This is an agency decision that has been presented as fiat accompli to some of the stakeholders with the caveat that it not be discussed prior to public release by NYSDEC, but it is on the website now, so please read. I am in the process of trying to obtain the dates and locations for the meetings, (I was on a stakeholder call but had less than great cellular reception), which are, I believe, the week after next. I know some of the other participants on the call are regulars on this site, perhaps one of them will post the schedule. I think the data is very supportive of the decision and with the precarious status of the adult baitfish population out through 2020, a resumption of full predator load would carry an unacceptable risk. I know a lot of charter operators disagree.

You could have been in one of the Canadian provinces that requires you to hire a guide to fish for Atlantic Salmon. Most of the guides don't know one end of the rod from another, they just sit along shore and smoke and take your dollars. I would like to see reciprocal licensing so if people from those provinces come to NY to fish for salmon, they would be required to hire a guide as well.

I can't remember but I think it was a wrenchy friend who works for a dealer. He said Jeep says their roofs are not braced right for carriers, but that would make me worry about rollover, as that has to be a lot more stress than a boat. I just stopped looking at them as I had also been told they have a lot of electrical problems, maybe my least favorite thing to have to deal with in a car.

When I was shopping for a vehicle last time, I stopped looking at Jeeps when I was told that they don't recommend putting any kind of boat on the roof. I went with a GMC puickup, then put on a Jerico cap with a Yakima system. Take a look at a Native watercraft kayak, a friend has one and it is quite a little boat!,

It should also be remembered that large numbers of our salmon do return to the rivers as carrion, except where "harvest" is very successful. You need nose plugs to walk around Altmar once the back channel in the Lower Fly zone fills up with deads!

West coast streams are nutrient poor, and without the carcasses, there would be nothing to feed the invertebrates the young salmon depend on, so the carcasses need to go back. In New York, the nearshore is overly nutrient rich, and basically only the streams draining the tug hill are nutrient poor. We don't need the carcasses so much. If you lived down current and had all that offal washing up on your beach, along with the algae and dead gobies and other c**p, you would probably like to see a 1 mile offshore restriction for fish cleaning.

And maybe they are hitting so well because of the "hole" in the Population of alewifes caused by the two bad winters. Three alewifes is not a lot of food in a mature king stomach.

Too early for that data, they are basically just finishing up spawning.