[Osage Orange]

I think that it's telling that Sportsfishermen groups were effectively locked out of participation in this.

That tells me something.....

[Huck]

In theory, I'm in favor of managing our natural resources, including managing our fisheries. There have been cases in the past where, without good stewardship, fisheries were decimated. The Chesapeake Bay comes to mind. I think it's come back quite a bit now after having been ravaged. I worked in a kitchen in the area, and found it quite sad that "Maryland" crab cakes contained Venezualan crab meat.

I doubt that the Obama team will merely manage our fisheries responsibly. I'm sure they will show themselves to be enviro-whackos. But that doesn't mean wildlife management is a bad thing.

There is the question of jurisdiction, but like most Constitutional questions, it's merely an intellectual exercise. Fedzilla can pretty much do as it pleases.

Anyway, I didn't see any ban of sportfishing in the report. And in theory, there are cases where sportfishing DOES need to be limited. I wish sport fisherman were all responsible stewards, but we know they aren't. That's why there are size limits etc.

I'm a sport fisherman in a densely populated state, so I have some understanding and sympathy for regulation. If we didn't have regulations here in NJ, the damn russians would have caught and eaten every fish in NJ by now.