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halibut caught on helen h

I think its terrible that someone would keep an atlantic halibut considering there extremely scarce in the northeast.
I've fished for many years and based on my observations , if recreational fishermen weren't bound by size limits, catch limits , they would keep all the fish they caught.
I fish every weekend on my boat and I never see people throwing fish back (unless there under the limit ) never!

We recreational fishermen constantly complain about commercial greed, but we're just as bad.

 

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the last post

I've been fishing (recreational) for the last 33 years, and I stand by my statement that I made about recreational greed. Recreational fishermen rarely throw fish back, unless they are required to. I go sea bass fishing on the Southeast grounds off Jones Inlet in the summer. The last couple of years you could catch all the seabass and porgies you wanted. Not once did I see a person throw any back . If this phenomonal fishing was only a few short weeks I could see taking alot. But the fish were there week after week and people still took more and more.
The same with bluefish. I never see people throw any back. and bluefish doesn't keep well in the freezer.