Striped bass on NPR
 

Gonna have to check my log books for the last 140 years.

Ahh.....It's always the commercial guy's fault..........

Global warming killed the bass.

Bush's fault

I believe the real culprit is SWE in Newport for selling eels to DZ and his crew. :rotf2:

Interesting theory. Would love to see more on it.

Sad part is some fish killers will seize this and use it to discount their own effects on the stocks.

"It's not our bunker netting that's the problem, it's the weather!"
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when I first heard it, I was thinking 'what commercial' lobbyist group sponsored this study?

Probably a small part of the "blame pie" but I think both the rec and com guys need to slow down their take of stripers.

It is interesting but kind of anecdotal.
Way back when I was a kid in the 60's they said it was sunspots! There was a direct correlation with increased sunspot activity. (read some of the older books on striped bass )
Back in the 80's they also said it was weather related BUT they said the big spring rain's are what caused the problem...via washing farming fertilizer (runoff)into the estuaries and that reacting with the oxygen in the water causing die-offs. Now, it is big spring rains that cause a population boom???

I am sensing a credibility problem ahead.

Until the FACTS are actually known with a very high degree of confidence, conserve the resource using very conservative measures.

The only solution that now makes sense to me is:
- National Game fish status
- 1@ 36" or if these fish need even more help ... C&R only
- Work on the bait problem and do whatever it takes to restore that to support a growing fishery

jim gets it.

yup!

Double YUP!

Tripple Yup