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Originally Posted by bluefishercat
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Do you think recreational fishing was much of a factor prior to the Second World War?
Are the fluctuations in Striped Bass and Bluefish populations part of a normal cycle where populations increase until they eat themselves out of a supply of food or become so dense, that the populations crash from lack of food or disease. I understand that this does happen with some species.
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the industrial revolution really took its tool on the fish stocks.. damming of rivers, dumping chemicals in the rivers.. etc.. Polution was to blame then.