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Also from another site:
NJ's recreational killing in 2001 = 8,428,000 pounds.
(1,204,000 fish - that's .28 X 4,300,000 - or 28% of the rec catch - at a ridiculous 7# average - just a guess...the number is probably very close to that - it would make NJ's total recreationally killed striped bass in one single season 8,428,000 pounds.)
NJ's commercial quota = 200,000#
(Yes, this is the quota that the pro-slot killing folks want you to say "Yes, we kill 24" stripers, but we don't have any commercial fishing!")
Unless my calculator needs new batteries, NJ's rec kill in 2001 is 4,214% higher than the old commercial quota that we "save" by not allowing commercial striper fishing in NJ.
So, here's a proposal - get rid of the slot, make it one fish at 28" and give the commercials back their 200,000 pounds that we somehow adulterated into 8,000,000 pounds. I mean, at least the commerials had to stop when they get to 200,000 pounds each year - the recs (us) keep killing more and more and smaller and smaller fish to the tune of, in 2001, probably over 8 millions pounds. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house?
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