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The Voice of Southern New England Fishermen P.O. Box 1465, Coventry, RI 02816 www.RISAA.org 401-826-2121 JANUARY, 2012 The Voice of Southern New England Fishermen ) FLUKE TACTICS (page 12) GULF OF MAINE COD IN TROUBLE (page 27) R.I.S.A.A. / January, 2012 Cod fillet law opens the door? Rhode Island has just instituted a cod anymore, but I will try to watch for January 10 • 6:30 PM fillet law that became effective on January proposals to get it in. Fortunately, our Fly Fishing Committee Meeting 1. The law is an attempt to combat charter current recreational representatives on the with Fly Tying & party boats from out of state that fish Council are also opposed to an across-the- the waters around Block Island and board fillet law. We have good January 12 - 15 reportedly keep a lot of undersize fish, representation there with Rick Bellavance, RISAA Booth at Providence Boat filleting them right away in an attempt to Rich Hittinger and Dave Monti. Show skirt the law if they are boarded and WADERS CHANGES?? checked. It appears that a new freshwater January 18 • 6:30 PM Personally, I'm not in favor of it. I regulation was quietly instituted that takes Fishing Show Committee Meeting disagree with any law that becomes an effect on January 1 which prohibits the use imposition on the vast majority of fishermen of felt soles on waders. No problem since January 24 • 6:30 who are honest for the sake of trying to this regulation exists in a few other states Board of Directors Meeting stop those who ignore the regulations. and is intended to help eliminate I've always been a law & order guy. I'm transferring invasive species from one January 30 • 7:00 willing to bend a little for the good of all. I pond to another. RISAA Monthly Seminar was in favor of the fishing license because But in this regulation it mentions I believed that it would be a benefit to the "marine". Can the freshwater division make January 31 - February 2 majority. But I'm not in favor of fillet laws. a regulation that applies to the saltwater New England Fisheries Mgmt Over the past several years DEM division? Council Meeting - Portsmouth, NH enforcement has proposed a total fillet law Here's the actual section which is in the state. While I was on the Fisheries contained in the RIDEM "Freshwater and February 7 - 9 Council I helped to defeat it time after time. Anadromous Fishing Regulations for the ASMFC Winter Meeting @ Crown Plaza, Alexandria, VA A total ban would actually be a hardship 2012-2013 Season": to many. 1.17 It is prohibited that any person use February 21 • 6:30 For those who want to fillet on the foot gear with external felt soles in any Board of Directors Meeting water, they would need to have strips that state waters, inclusive of freshwater, tidal, match specific lengths. Every angler would or marine. This shall include any waters February 25 • 6:30 PM need to carry a chart that shows the minim shared with adjacent states in which any RISAA 14th Annual Banquet catch size for each species like we have Rhode Island Fishing Regulations apply. West Valley Inn, West Warwick, RI now, but also the minimum fillet sizes. What about those who just can't fillet CONGRATS TO NEW CHAIRS February 27 • 7:00 PM very well? I'm pretty good at filleting fish, It's good to see members who are RISAA Monthly Seminar but every once in awhile my knife will dull getting more involved and taking and I'll hack up a side of fluke and could leadership rolls, by accepting the jobs as February 28 • 6:30 end up with perfectly good fish having to chairmen of important committees: Fly Fishing Committee Meeting be tossed overboard because the fillet strip KEVIN MILLER is taking over as came out less than "legal" size. Will chairman of the Charities Committee. March 9 - 11 fisheries managers begin to cut our annual DON SMITH takes over as chair of the New England Saltwater quota and start figuring in bad fillets? Striper Cup Committee. Fishing Show For those who take their fish back to CHARLIE BRADBURY, a long-time @ R.I. Convention Center shore to fillet can have problems. Some member of the Tournaments Committee has marinas don't allow filleting at the docks. taken over as the new chairman. March 26 • 7:00 PM Those who used boat ramps would begin CHRISTOPHER "CJ" RICE (he RISAA Monthly Seminar & to fillet their catch at the ramp or along the prefers "CJ") has stepped up to take over Quarterly Meeting shore. The shallow waters around the ramp the reins of the Public Access Committee. would soon be filled with fish racks. JEROMY JAMGOCHIAN is taking April 30 • 7:00 PM Imagine the flies that would be take over over the Tag & Release Committee. RISAA Monthly Seminar the area. I'm not on the Fisheries Council - 2 - R.I.S.A.A. / January, 2012 A long time coming.... Brayton Point to begin using one cooling tower According to the Fall River Herald News, the first of two cool exhausted steam from the power generating turbines. 497 foot high cooling towers at the Brayton Point power plant According to the EPA (permit for Brayton Point) the plant will begin use for the first draws in about 1 billion gallons of water per day from Mount time later this year, and is a Hope Bay to cool the major step forward in the steam, and the water that $620 million project. The is returned to the Bay is project, as a whole, is above 90 degrees. Part of expected to be completed the impact from this in April 2012, when all four system is that millions of of the plant’s generating tautog and winter flounder units will be connected to juveniles are drawn into the two towers. the water intake screens (Insert here the picture and killed, and the 90 of the two towers. I’ve sent degree returned water the picture to you by a makes the Bay unusable as separate email) a winter flounder spawning The tower in use will be area. Once the project is noticeable from Interstate completed, the plant will 195 because of a plume of require only 5 percent of vapor rising above the top the 5 billion gallons of the tower. The cooling currently used. towers are structured like The RI Department of giant chimneys. Only the Environmental bottom 40 feet or so will Management has contain the machinery to undertaken a multiyear cool the spent steam to project to determine what water, and the rest will be caused the dramatic hollow. The structures are decline of the winter as tall as they are to keep the flounder stocks in evaporated water and hot air Narragansett Bay, and from the neighboring what would be needed to communities and highway. restore these fish to our The plume will be more Bay. Maybe, just maybe, visible in colder weather. the significantly reduced The towers were built as impact of the Brayton part of a project to reduce Point power plant on Mt. the plant’s adverse Hope Bay will result in environmental impact on winter flounder once again Mount Hope Bay. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency spawning in that Bay. It’s only a part of the solution to the ordered that Brayton Point must reuse the water that it uses to collapse of winter flounder stocks in the Bay, but it’s a start. Fly Fishing • Light Tackle STRIPERS • BLUES • COD • FLUKE • TUNA • SHARK Inshore, Offshore & Canyon Trips Available Capt Rene Letourneau 35’ Custom Henriques Sportfish On The Rocks Charters Dream Catcher II Charters Capt. Mike Comerford, Sr. 401-359-3625 Sailing from USCG Licensed Captain Point Judith 401-651-9600 www.ontherockscharters.com Member [email protected] • dreamcatcherri.com - 3 - R.I.S.A.A. / January, 2012 Fisheries Council recommends cod fillet law Yes…. a cod filet law has come to Rhode Island effective expected to take RIMFC input and their departmental January 1, 2012 as the Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council recommendations to the director for her decision. It was clear (RIMFC) voted to recommend one to the Department of that some type of cod fillet law may be in place for 2012. Environmental Management (DEM) commissioner Janet Coit last week. OTHER RIMFC NEWS Captain Frank Blount, owner of the Francis Fleet party FLUKE. The RIMFC voted to discontinue the fluke sector boats, said, “I was the one who recommended this filet law and pilot program, however, this leaves the door open for some other would support an option that would allow type of program, perhaps a permanent one which is expected to filleting of cod at sea, but with fillets equal to be proposed. the a specified size, fourteen inches, if that The Council voted to recommend the elimination of the translates to the minimum size fish (22 Friday and Saturday commercial fluke fishing restriction. inches)”. Commercial rod and reel fishermen in particular felt that this Blount advocated for the law to prevent regulation was unfair to commercial fisherman. private anglers, party and charter boats from Recreational anglers advocated keeping one restricted day, taking undersized cod and then filleting them Blount Saturday, which would allow recreational anglers to fish at sea with no minimum size. If DEM Law Enforcement should Saturdays without the impact of commercial fluke fishermen. check their catch nothing could be done if the fish were filleted However, in the end with a split vote, the Council voted to because there is no minimum filet size.
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