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The license applies to those who may catch anadromous species such as salmon, striped bass, smelt, and shad that spawn in rivers and streams and spend their adult lives in estuaries and the ocean.
Do you need a license if you catch and release a striped bass ?
If your targeting blues, scup, fluke, skates, dogfish, tog then you don’t need a license.
If approached by the EPO regarding a license state that your targeting non-anadromous species such as bluefish. Also, if you happen to catch a bass while in the presence of the EPO release ASAP to show your intent that you’re not targeting bass.
On another note if you keep one or two bass a year for the table you can either take your chances of getting busted or go to the fish market where it will cost you less then buying multiple licenses.
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