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Originally Posted by buckman
Did I miss something ? Are these fish about to go extinct? no but the decline is documented in many ways
You guys talk as if keeping a few fish on a charter boat is going to collapse the stock and the kids of tomorrow will only be able to see striped bass in books and videos. noone said that
Once again I will ask you .
If the plan in place will help the bass population get to a point where you guys are comfortable with , then why put people out of business ? the plan in place is 50% likely to help the bass population get to a "comfortable" level
This is pettiness .
I wonder how many of you have actually been offshore and seein the number of striped bass? I've seen this and similar statements throughout the season where guys on boats gaze into their fish finders and declare there are millions of bass...this does not seem to be a good way to judge the health of the stock..if they circled the area that they are observing on a map of the striper coast it would hardly represent a trend
Think about it, hundreds of acres of sand eels , mackerel,and herring and fewer seals. They are here in great numbers .
Unfortunately you can't fish for them there .
I'm going to ask a question based on my own theory ? Is it possible that the inshore bass population has just moved off shore ? possible? ...sure...likely?.....probably not given the history....there is ample bait inshore as wellIt happens with Tuna . They just don't show up in your old spots year to year but that doesn't mean they're not out there
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all that said Buck, I do understand more and more where you are coming from and I believe that if in fact, the guys that you are speaking for/about can demonstrate a hardship I'd support some kind of exemption but I haven't really heard a reasonable argument yet as to why 1 or 2 is a gamechanger...and that may be a result of not understanding first hand what goes on with these boats and their clientele