Cod size limit, woeful.

[Kartonkel]

I have fished on charters out of New York. Here is there size and bag limits. Size is in inches. Boats with inspectors onboard patrol popular areas.

Fishing laws, regulations, and size limits for fishing the waters of new York and Long Island

54 inch Great Hammerhead

just shows us how brainfree and random these bylaws usually are.

I prefer to make my own decisions, based on knowledge, respect and personal demands

And as a previous poster says...I rather take an undersized ling home (if barotraumatised or deadly injured) and panfry it instead of tossing him back into the water where seagulls pick it into pieces.

It absolutely sickens me when trawlers "obeye" the laws by throwing bycatch and overquota dead back into the sea

 

[kayos]

Indeed Norbert, why can't the powers that be give a trawler a "white fish quota?" When it's reached, it's reached, no dead by catch!

Or is that too simple?

 

[Kartonkel]

Indeed Norbert, why can't the powers that be give a trawler a "white fish quota?" When it's reached, it's reached, no dead by catch!

Or is that too simple?

Sometimes its hard to explain our hobby as well, Mark.

We go out and stick a hook into a bait and reel a poor creature 50m up...barotraumatise them, rip a treble out of their gills, throw them into the sea and see them eaten by birds.

Or how about catch-n-release ...for pure fun someone is hooking a creature, injures them, takes them out of the water, takes pictures, calls them "She is a beauty!", kisses the fish, releases the fish..."Here she goes...back to fight another day...thanks for entertaining me"

All legal and OK ?!

 

[Juliogeordio]

I try not to take fish just on size however as already mentioned, if gut hooked etc i will take them rather than feeding the gulls. A lot of clubs can and do offer catch and release matches which I suppose is a step forward however it would barely make any difference compared to commercial boats. I Personally get a bigger kick seeing a nice fish swim away to fight another day. Rules are rules however so nothing wrong with taking a fish if it is of size... Just depends on your moral compass ...

 

[waco]

Well said people forget at one time the size limit for codling was 12" and no body complained about taking bags full of just size fish from the tyne

your right ,
but the club i was in at the time( early eighties) put their own restrictions on cod and coley which was 13'' limit as it was a pitiful site when all those
12'' coddies were weighed in