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So what you would like is no restrictions on sport scuba lobster hunting, just restrictions on commercial fishing of lobsters? No traps, just catch them by hand?
 
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is this only for 2017, or going to be recurrent?
are there other popular dive fishing targets? We have scallops up this way.
 
As stated the split closures are for 2017. The proposed options are for 2018 and beyond.

Flounder is another species in contention.

Although we are listed as a "gear type" (by hand) you need a scallop permit to possess them in Federal waters.
 
If this is the way the local regulations are going, the dive boat operators are going to have to market a different type of treasure-hunt-dive to stay in business, maybe with a BBQ lunch thrown in. This Is what I have seen offered up here in Mass. The commercial fisherman won't survive too long whether there is a ban, or whether the lobsters just get fished out, either way.
 

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