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The shot above was a digital image I took of Greg Fitzgerald (NY) holding his 8.5 pound Maine state trophy haddock which he caught on April 21, 2010 while fishing off the Bunny Clark . I have never used this image until today. That year, in particular, I had so many pictures of anglers with fish that I couldn't use them all. I still have quite a few left. I am using this picture of Greg with his haddock caught in April to illustrate a point. Of course the regulations have changed from what they were that year. For 2016 we will not be able to keep any haddock we catch until May 1. After that we will be able to keep fifteen haddock per person as long as the haddock measures at least seventeen inches long. Anglers in the Gulf of Maine (our fishing area) will be able to keep haddock all through the year until March 1, 2017. For 2017, we will again be able to keep haddock starting on April 16. So instead of not being able to keep haddock in September and October, as was the case in 2015, we will be able to keep haddock during those months. Last year we were prohibited from landing cod, period. No cod could be kept in the Gulf of Maine. For 2016, this year, we will be able to keep one cod per person from August 1 through all of September. Before and after that time period, we will again be prohibited from keeping cod. What do I think? It really doesn't matter what I think. I know that the recreational angler didn't create the problem. However, the cod is in trouble. Cod stocks are so low, in my opinion, that I do feel the recreational angler can help in bringing the cod back. But the angler can't do it alone. And unless salient regulations are put forth for the other sectors in the fishery, the cod population won't get any larger. But I hope. And I have some faith. I'm glad the haddock is available to the recreational angler again. Unlike the cod, I believe the recreational angler's regulations will neither help nor hurt the haddock population. The question of whether anglers should have any haddock regulations at all is moot. The closed areas on Georges Bank brought the haddock back. Now the mid-water herring trawlers are trying to undermine the efforts of past closed areas by being awarded a huge bycatch of haddock in those same closed areas. Why the New England Fishery Management Council is allowing these trawlers to take any haddock at all is beyond me. The good news is that haddock are forming resident spawning populations outside of the closed areas. Hopefully this will help sustain our haddock resource into the future. Much still has to be done in the fishery management arena. But for now the angler can be happy that if haddock are caught they can be brought home to the dinner table. Recreationally caught fish are the freshest product you can find. And I am certainly looking forward to eating mine! Special fish like Greg's are the kind of fish we like to see caught on the Bunny Clark .
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