You know, prior to WWII there was no netting except in ocean waters far off shore. But the government was scared of the Japanese submarines destroying our fishing fleets and hindering the war effort by creating a bit of a food source shortage. So they allowed the fishing fleets to "fish" (if you wanna call netting fishing) withinthe strait and the sound. We have long since defeated the Japanese and are back to "normal"....maybe we should consider getting the netting "back to normal too"