Fish & Wildlife Survey

[Bob]

How about this?

The NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife is implementing a new angler survey to collect information on certain marine fish important to recreational anglers.  Current data collection efforts for recreational fisheries are hindered by sampling only a small portion of the fishing public and from collecting only minimal data on discarded fish.  Information collected through this voluntary survey will provide data which may support alternative management strategies that increase fishing opportunities for the public.

The focus of this voluntary survey is catch and effort from fishing trips in marine and estuarine waters of the state and surrounding areas.  For catch information, we are interested in collecting information on the number and size of both kept and released fish.

Thank you for your assistance with this project. Please note that this is a new survey, so the appearance of the survey page may change slightly over time - we hope you'll be a regular contributor. We value and appreciate your input toward the management of our marine resources.

The survey is located at http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/marinesurvey08.htm on the division's website.  Anglers are encouraged to submit a survey whenever they return from saltwater fishing.


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[IrishAyes]

Wow, how easy will it be to skew that information. Get an anti or three with an agenda and they can report such great catches that we will be over our allotment in a week and be shut down.

Good concept, but I have my doubts that it will work. There will have to be some type of checks and balances in the reports. Don't know how they will be able to do that.