Nantucket Fishermen Want Ban on Fish Draggers, Scallop Dredges to Rebuild Dwindling Squid Stocks
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Cape Cod Times] by Doug Fraser - February 23, 2017
For the past couple of years, Nantucket fishermen have had a hard time finding striped bass in the rips and alongshore where they were accustomed to catching them.
They think they know why: no squid.
"This was where all the bass were caught. Now, no bait, no fish, no stripers to speak of," said Pete Kaizer, a charter boat captain and commercial tuna fisherman.
Kaizer and other Nantucket fishermen petitioned the state...
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