Aunty -
While I agree that the violation rate is probably over blown by the way the enforcement selects contacts or report the information the bottom line is that there is far too many violations. I don't recall time this year that I have return to the dock after crabbing that I have not seen at least some folks that were clearly wrong. A quick glance in folk's buckets reveal short crabs, females, crabs that were clearly soft, cleaned crabs without the back shell, etc. And of course I had no ideal how many were punched or not.

The sad reality is that until that we can achieve some sort of reasonable compliance with the sport crab regs non-compliance will constantly be thrown back in our faces. It will be hard to have meaningful discussions about management changes without the non-compliance issue derailing those discussions.

Tight lines
Curt