Big Draggers Raid Stellwagen Cod
Atlantic Cod, Photo/Wikipedia
Gloucester Times: Big offshore draggers using their own and acquired catch share allocations have worked inside Stellwagen Bank for the past year — where they’d not been seen before — depleting a rebuilding stock of Gulf of Maine cod.
That was the testimony Tuesday [May 15] from more than a dozen charter boat captains during a day-long meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council‘s Recreational advisory panel meeting held at a hotel complex in Wakefield.
A federal fisheries analyst also confirmed the presence, though not the impact, of the Stellwagen draggers.
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Tom Richardson is the co-director and host of BoatingLocal. Before that he served as the editor of Northeast Boating from 2005 to 2009, and as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine from 1995 to 2004. He lives, boats and fishes in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.
