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Originally Posted by clambo
Years ago there was a moratorium on Striper fishing. At the same time I saw spotter plane images of schools in the hundreds of thousands taken offshore around 100 miles. So it seems that if there are fewer fish inshore where the counts are taking place ergo there must be fewer fish. This is sloppy science! The Stripers were offshore feeding on ocean Herring as blackback Herring inshore have been depleted by commercial fishing and a lack of oversite by the very agencies that were supposed to protect them. This may always be happening until all areas where Stripers are located are looked at.
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So if the stripers were everywhere, and they are now only "offshore," and they are unsuccessful at breeding year after year, it is a pretty good scientific conclusion that there is a problem. I can't figure out what you mean by your last sentence. What would change "all areas" are looked at? Do you mean we would realize there is no problem? What you suggest seems like not sloppy science, but bad science.