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As far as striped bass goes, more recreational "registered anglers" will give the guvmint a much bigger pool to ask questions and dresge info from. Think that proposed level of "science" data is bad, they currently cold call out of the blue to ask. A lot of people talk about how rarely they are approached by an EPO (not surveying) or an actual person working for NMFS doing a survey - happened to me once 10 years ago - is a next to non-existent.
So they will be able to base their surveys on talking to anglers that actually fish so their data will improve from horrible to just miserable.
As for who puts the biggest dent in the fishery along the coast - that's probably recreational by far
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