Management is key and with honest and valid reseach the problems could be dealt with. Fish, animals and even trees are suppose to be a renewable resourse, unfortunetly there are too many mouths to feed and too many homes to build and not enough resourses to substain this. I think the laws for stripers are inadequite, both commercial and recreational and they need to be reexamined. If you catch a shorty and have to release it, it never made any sense to me because theres a good chance said fish will not survive. Why not catch your bag limit regardless of size and go home? Commercial fisherman do the same, throw out the shorties, throw out the fish they don't want by the ton and we call that management?
Great discussion just the same.
