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Go talk to a lobsterman how he is doing this year. He will tell you he is having one of his poorest years in his memory. In fact, if you go down to teh co-op docks in gallilee, you'll notice that most of teh lobster boats are not going out. There was an article in the projo a few weeks ago about the lobster crash and they eluded to the fact that there are lots of stripers around. Then you have the winter flounder problems. I'm nto a scientist but I do know that the baby winter flounders are headed down narragansett bay right around the time that the bass start making their selves known in the spring... We dont want bass eating lobsters and flounder..... we want them eating menhaden.
We need to get the menhaden back. i believe that they are the base to the food pyramid not just here, but most importantly in the chesapeake, when the bass are there for the winter. Crafty is right, Omega Protien is the problem, and you can be sure that they are big enough to have lobbiests pushing for a higher Catch every year.
As for me, I cant remember the last time I kept 2 bass a day. in fact, i probably keep about 10% of the keepers i catch each year.
I would love to know the numbers of people fishing before the moritoriam in the 80's and the number of people fishing now... I would not be surprised if there was at least 10 times the number of guys wetting a line now.
Where is this rumor of one fish a day coming from?? I would love to see a one fish at 24" to 34" then release anything below or above. If we did that, and also saved the adult Menhaden, i believe things would be alot better.
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