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Here's the Cliff's Notes version of my reply to you on SOL:
1) The Mass commercial season starts on the second Tuesday in July.
2) Few, if any, of the fish taken will be migrating to Maine after mid July.
3) The Mass fishery is rod and reel only and has a 34" minimum. Every female fish harvested has spawned at least once.
4) Assuming a 20 pound average, about 50,000 bass are harvested during the Mass commercial season.
5) Estimates put the current striped bass biomass at somewhere between 40 and 50 million, coast wide.
6) The Mass commercial season has a negligible effect, if any, on the numbers of bass in Maine.
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