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Originally Posted by snake slinger
if comm fishing for stripers stoped would it make a big diffrence in the population?
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Commercials have a strict quota of somewhere around 6-7 million pounds a year, in the states that have a commercial fishery. It's pretty strictly monitored. That's the leagal harvest. Making bass a gamefish won't stop any illegal harvesting that's still going on.
The recreational harvest is estimated at somewhere around 28-30 million pounds a year. No one really knows for sure--it could be higher.