NOAA Fisheries Reveals “Reporting Errors and Illogical Responses”

Breaking news exclusively from The Fisherman this week as NOAA Fisheries admits that their high-tech angler surveys may be overreporting fishing effort by as much as 40%! In the computer science world, the acronym GIGO stands for “garbage in, garbage out” meaning that flawed, illogical input data will only produce flawed, illogical output. Well, buckle up for the first 9 minutes of this week’s video fishing forecast as we deliver breaking news from NOAA Fisheries about their “fatally flawed” recreational survey data and the latest “reporting errors and illogical responses” revealed by the federal fisheries agency this week. In a nutshell, the government is asking anglers to “trust the process” when it comes to developing regulations for striped bass, fluke, sea bass, porgies and bluefish, while simultaneously acknowledging that their own “process” for gathering recreational fishing effort is, well, to put it simply, garbage! Plus, the latest reports from the New Jersey, Delaware Bay region and a weekend forecast.