Because NOAA Fisheries has failed to collect the required data and science, it has a very limited ability to properly manage recreational fisheries.
This from CCA, who does not even exist in NJ and who's bulk of their leadership in NY left CCA and formed the FCA because they were unhappy with CCA's direction on many Northeast fisheries. CCA whose NY chapter that has existed for years has dwindled in size as the mass defections to the only recently formed RFA NY chapter continue (RFA is already larger than CCA in NY)
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