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Originally Posted by MakoMike
Sorry I misunderstood what you were asking for. The stock assessment is the first block in most fishery management decisions. The second step is to decide where you want the stock to be vis-a-vis the current stock assessment. Most times fishery managers don't want the stock to be less that it currently is, so I'll discount that possibility. More usual is that the managers want the stock at about the level it currently is (which IMHO is where the striped bass stock assessment will come in) or they want the stock to increase. "F" stand for fishing mortality. When a fishery management plan is adopted (FMP) it usually calls for a target biomass in a given timeframe, if rebuilding is required, or it calls for holding the biomass steady, if no rebuilding is called for. Fmsy ifs the fishing mortality that the stock can stand and still maintain the Maximum sustainable yield (MSY) which is the way the U.S. has decided that all rebuilt fisheries should be managed. To convert Fmsy to coastwide bag limits, one has to estimate the number of fishermen and divide the msy by the numer of fishermen and fishing days to come up with the bag limit. Stripers generally spawn for the first time somewhere between 32 and 34 inches in size. There is an additon factor in the assessment which is called "spawning Stock biomass." That's the amount of spawning fish and the FMP will cintain targets for the level of SSB, that will generall translate into size limits. All of this is a gross oversimplification, but it should be enough to gett he conversation started.
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The whole system is flawed IMO..
"The stock assessment is the first block in most fishery management decisions."
The accuracy of the assessment of any fishery is a joke at best..
Then they work the numbers down to .001..
Then they set the fishery to MSY.
The problem is still driven by money..
U won't see a drastic increase in size limits or reduction in bag limits till it becomes drastic again.Coms an recs alike when it comes to S-B
drive the train here.If the recs go the cut back route, the comns would have to follow..or vise versa It ain't gonna happen.I could hear the cries of poverty from here..
I have no problem with one at 36"
I can't imagine the uproar from the party boat capts here in NJ on that one..
We had a 1 fish 24-28 an one fish 34 or over..
a few yrs ago
Man they cried when they lost there 24 " fish ..
we went to basically 2@28"like evryone else..
Money IS everything..