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COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN ABOUT TO GET SHANKED BY AGFC

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Tomorrow the AGFC will enact a catfish size limit on the Mississippi River along with Tennessee and Mississippi .It seems this was spurred by Bill Dance and BASSPRO to preserve so called TROPHY CATFISH on the river.It will reduce all harvests to only 1 fish over 34 inches for all anglers including the commercial fisherman.JB WELD you may wanna step in and make some waves on this.It’s headed to the same place our duck hunting went for a FEW DOLLARS MORE.Our commercial fisherman have been harvesting big catfish outta the river for decades and I certainly don’t feel like they have hurt the TROPHY fish there at all.There’s many guides making lotsa money taking folks to the Mississippi to catch trophy catfish and it’s not really that hard to do.These guys making a living on fish outta that river are gonna suffer from this beat down.
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Didn't the agfc make it sound like they were following arkansas lead?
Didn't the agfc make it sound like they were following arkansas lead?
Not at the commissioners meeting Best I remember but in other meetings yes
Not at the commissioners meeting Best I remember but in other meetings yes
I thought the survey made it sound like mississippi was already doing it.
I can't find the survey now to look.
Here is a link to the MS river cat fishing survey.

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It seems we will get a reprieve on this silly regulation for the time being.The AGFC have decided to take no action as of now.
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Only difference is that trout aren’t fit to eat.
Millions of Dollars spent on those unfit Trout... 😂
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It seems we will get a reprieve on this silly regulation for the time being.The AGFC have decided to take no action as of now.
It'll be like the duck season chsnge. They'll slip it in last minute next year.
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Lol let’s hope not.It seems they opened the input for the survey up for nonresidents to chime in on.The TROPHY group ACA,which is a huge organization,we’re asking for all their members to chime in on it.
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