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8% of recreational caught and released Striped Bass are assessed to have died after release and that mortality is incorporated in stock asessment models
natural mortality numbers in the stock asessment do include diseases
1 fish at no size limit will more than double current Striped Bass mortality ad would collapse the stock
even recreational community science tells us less than 5 % of persons that try to catch a keeper striped bass actually do
counting fishermen/woman is MAYBE one benefit from the salt water fishing license.
just because a state does not have a commercial fishery for S-B does not mean they are killing less fish
many states have a conservation equivalency (ie: NJ does not use it's commercial quota but harvests those fish under it's recreational fishing program program)
Maine loves to complain about having no striped bass but has zero problem letting various commercial fishing fleets harvest most of the forage fish in state waters...take the herring and mackerel away and then complain there is no Stripers....nice....same for NC and the menhaden
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