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Originally Posted by nightfighter
I get that the seasons are different geographically, but these regs are just ripe for poaching, IMO. State laws need to be integrated so as to unify the effort to conserve the species.
Elsewhere in the email, OTW mentions pre-spawn fish and post-spawn fish. How is one to know? In a past season, I have caught a fish in late July or August that was still full of eggs, ie pre-spawn.
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Ho would it facilitate poaching?
Any striper you catch this time of year in the ocean is post spawn. They don't all spawn every year so there are a percentage of fish out there in the May to Dec timeframe that are still carrying eggs. Often the eggs will be reabsorbed into the body.