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Personally I feel this is a great chance to return things to the way they should be. More bunker means more food for bass- food that is rich in nutrients and fat needed for healthy fish.
Maybe the occurence of skin lesions and mal-nourished fish being greatly reduced will help offset the loss of cows caught on a live lined bunka.
We can protect the cows only so well- guys with other live baits, ie scup still kill plenty of big girls. So I feel if they are not eating bunker they are eating something else and just as likely to be caught.
At least the fish that feed on bunker will be healthier and fatter when we catch them. The trickle down effect from healthy bunker stocks will be felt through out the eco system.
I remember the mid to late 80s when the bunker were so thick you couldn't cast without snagging them. The blues with them were massive and healthy. The bass stocks were in the gutter, so we never caught many, but now give us good bass numbers with a superior supply of arguably the striped bass's most nutrious food and lets see what happens.
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