I was checking out at the seafood counter, when the chalkboard menu caught my eye,wild weakfish 9.95 LB.. Here is how the menu read to me, a completely incompetent, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Council weakfish board. In retrospect the ASMFC has made some horrendously bad weakfish management decisions over the years. Allowing a market for weakfish at this point just highlights their failures.
The commercial fishermen themselves supported a moratorium on the sale of weakfish, until the population was completely rebuilt.
Ironically, it was a recreational fishing group that fought against the weakfish moratorium.
Ken's Dock 
You are right, Ken. Sadly, politics rules and too many politicians don’t like science when it conflicts with what they prefer to believe.
Brian, hopefully the weakfish for sale were truly only by-catch. They are allowed 100 pounds per trip in NJ.