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Originally Posted by numbskull
You are hiding behind the ASMFC mandate.
You are hiding behind a commercial concept of maximum "yield" which implies dead fish.
What is the maximum sustainable yield that ensures a quality fishery?
Why are we not fishing to that number?
That number exists just as certainly as the one that is used for a fishery managed for maximum sustainable kill. The numbers are not the same. Someone makes a decision which number to use. That someone is heavily influenced by commercial pressure.
To fix it all we need is an amendment making striped bass a gamefish and stipulating they be fished to a maximum yield that sustains a quality fishery rather than a bare minimum surviving population as we do now.
It is not rocket science, you know it as well as I, which is exactly why you keep obfuscating the issue.
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I'm not hiding behind anything personally I don't give a crap. But the MSA requires all fisheries be managed for MSY. You otoh seem to misunderstand what the law requires.