The ample stocks thing... I know some of the people in ASMFC and I know how much influence the commercial fisheries has in policy. I have seen the numbers and I know what anecdotal evidence I see in the lack of big bunker in NC, MD, CT, RI, and MA, which are the only places I can really comment on. It is not good anywhere. Are you happy with what you see? And with that, knowing that 85%+ of the striped bass come from the Chesapeake, I think the decline in bunker there is of most dire concern. Not that ASMFC is necessarily get anything done about it .
