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Originally Posted by baldwin
Let's think about it for a minute. If those stripers taken as bycatch count toward the quota, they still count as striped bass, and do not result in LESS bass taken. Same amount is more likely.
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That is not logical. If a quota is for 1,000,000# and bycatch of 50,000# does not count, the total bass killed is 1,050,000. If the bycatch counted toward the quota, the total is only 1,000,000#. That's fewer bass killed, not more.
As far as the argument that the EEZ harbors proportionately bigger fish than the populations commercially targeted inshore, I'd like to read some of that science if it's not too much trouble. That's the first I've heard of it.