CAW MAY COUNTY MAGAZINE 1 JUNE '63

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YACHT BASIN — Their mooring lines slack in the calm water, these handsome fishing and pleasure craft in Cape May represent only a few of nearly 11.000 private boats docked in county waters.

foreign factory ships are really planned obsolescence — a method of capturing shares of the overseas market for underutilized species until the U S. commercial fleet is ready to take over the action. Tweed sees joint ventures “only as an interlude — a step toward our exporting our own product.” The first step 'has the 200-mule territorial zone; the second step, still continuing, is to improve the domestic fishing fleet. Joint ventures were the third step. The final step begins at Lund's. In Portugal, Italy and Japan, where squid is not an underutilized species but a delicacy, squid lovers want their dinner as tasty and as they can get it. Even the time it takes to deliver squid from American bdats to foreign factory ships, where it is flash frozen, downgrades the quality of the catch -His overseas customers, Lund admitted, "are not happy with the product.” That means he gets a lower price for his joint venture catch. To improve his profit (and help

replace joint ventures with a strictly American fishing operation), Lund plans to build a 150-foot processing ship, equipped with flash freezers, for $3 million. “If we get one,” he oberved, “that's only going to replace one foreigner.” Lund predicted an overdue but eventual transition of the fishing fleet into one with more processing vessels. “There are a lot of foreigners off our coast, but we can compete if we get these ships," he said. Four county agencies are currently studying the industry to determine the fishermen’s needs before applying for government grants to revitalize local fishing with new equipment. Commercial fishermen can apply for government loan guarantees to finance new gear and Lund may go that route to help build his processing ship. Even if the guarantee doesn't come through, though, he’s committed. "We have to go that way," he conclued.

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By E.J. DUFFY Because of its location astride Delaware - Bay and the ocean, Cape May Peninsula "just happens to be a good area for fishing,” said William Fegley, senior biolgoist with the state Division of Game and Wildlife. “Most of the other ports arc dependent on the ocean." After the railroads ran their tracks through Cape May County between 1860-18S0, they offered "Fishermen Special" excursions from the metropolitan areas. The low fare and fish attracted anglers to the party and charter boats When major highways were constructed to the shore points in this century and automobiles became affordable to nearly every working man, cars replaced trains as the quickest and cheapest way to the fish and the anglers came in droves. Many later bought their own fishing boats. “But Cape May has a problem, as far as sports fishing is concern ed," Fegley continued, referring to the county not the city, "because it really doesn't have much going for it in the winter ” Unlike the northern New Jersey coast, county shores do not attract concentrations of cod during the winter, so sports fishermen leave with the. seasonal weakfish, Fegley explained. Enough whiting are off the county coast to attract winter anglers, he noted, but South Jersey sports fishermen haven’t acquired the taste for whiting that keeps the northern anglers casting throughout the cold months and the North Jersey marinas, charter and party boat owners busy’ with their "offseason” trade. According to Fegley’s 1980 figures, 32 party boats and 42 charter craft operate out of county docks. Some 10,697 private fishing craft in the county were registered to New Jersey residents and another 100 or so boats from Pennsylvania and Delaware were tied up in local marinas. FIVE PARTY BOATS and 15 20 charters regularly tie up at Dick Weber's South Jersey Fishing Center in Cape May. Lately, talk

around the docks has been about bluefish because the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Maqbgement Council has proposed to impose quotas on the bluefish catch The first hearing on that proposal was held in Cape May last monih Steward Tweed, county marine agent, reasoned that, despite quotas, the bluefish might migrated elsewhere in a few years He questioned whether the council should even attempt to regulate the catch. ■1 think that's unquestionably true,” Weber said of Tweed’s comments on the cyclical nature of sealife. He recalled thal, "back in the ’50s, we never caught a bluefish over two pounds." Nevertheless, Weber sees bluefish as “the most important recreational fish” for the charter and party boats, "it's real easy to knock the hell otit of them" lie added, alluding to overfishing. The fishery managers decied to hold hearings on the question of bluefish quotas after commercial trawlers began havesting record landings of the species in southern waters and anglers in Virginia complained to the council. Along the East Coast, sports fishermen land 88 percent of the bluefish while commercial fishers account for the remainder. Attempting to provide commercial fishermen with the opportuni ty" to modestly increase their share of the bluefish catch while accommodating the anglers, the council has proposed an 80-20 ration in favor of the sports fishermen. The council, however, won’t make a decision on proportions or quotas until it concludes its hearings with commercial and recreational fishermen across the state. "The council has been convinced that the bluefish is a recreational fish," Weber insisted, predicting a decision in favor of the 80-20 allocation. “No recreational fisherman is going to bitch about 80-20,” he maintained, because the anglers want to protect their favorite catch through proper management. “Personally, I think it’s necessary," Weber added.

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