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Basswipe, sorry but your incorrect, lobster and crabs are there main diet, read nick karrass book, the sceinetific jargon is all there, during comm.season go watch them gut bass you will find crustasions all day long.
I dont know, there are plenty of bass around and more 50s landed at the island than I can remember, I am catching on a consistant basis more fish than I ever have and there not on bunker, go see a bass that has sucked down a 2lb lobster and see how fat that will make the fish! I have said before I have fished when the bunker were nill and still caught plenty, they forage around rocks "rockfish" no bunker there...........
So as far as a banner year? I am having one!!  |
I stand by my original statement that the pogie is the stripers #1 source of food.
This from a study done in Virginia by the National Coalition for Marine Conservation around the same time period as the Mass Gov. study.
"Why striped bass are starving"
1.Up to 90% of striped bass on the East Coast spawn in Chesapeake Bay.
2.The diet of large striped bass is 70-80% menhaden.Most of this consumption is of juveniles.
3.The Chesapeake produces nearly half of each new generation of menhaden.
4.70% of Atlantic menhaden are caught in Chesapeake Bay and adjacent waters.
5.The population of juvenile menhaden (age 0-1) is in decline reaching an historic low in 2001.
Conclusion:The resurgent population of rockfish is not finding enough to eat.
It could lead to a future collapse in the fishery.