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I've hammered a ton of cod over the years, local and offshore. Always by rod and reel. Fifteen fish limits and now 10 per person. This type of fishing would never dent that fishery. When I see all the rockcod fillets or whole fish (that NEVER look fresh) in every type of store everywhere, I can't help but think how many are caught/wasted by the commercial guys. We'd fish the best spots on the nine mile bank and know we were going to lose some weights and gangnions hanging up on all the lost commercial gear sitting on the bottom (for years and years) tangled in the rocks. We'd see tell tale signs of current gill nets (buoys and flags) and inevitably look for the buoy on the other end of their set, and say dammit, that's like 200 yards away. Set after set zigzagging around the nine. Indiscriminate killing by gill net or trawling for max profits and low prices is just wrong.
Pass me the popcorn.
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