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That's definitely a hard and loaded question ... what's your objective with this question?
Here's my answer - I think the bait stocks and quality of the estuaries makes a much bigger impact on fish stocks than the commercial fishery ...
... many bait stocks are impacted by commercial fishing and often not even U.S. based vessels ...
... but coastal development overall is causing the degradation of the estuaries and thus declines in certain bait stocks ... so it's much more complicated and involved in just the commercial fishery ...
... as for stocks of stripers ... even recreational harvest impacts stocks, but I'm not going to tell some guy fishing on the beach or in his boat that he shouldn't keep a fish or two, it's his/her right
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