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dannyplug1 · 01-15-2010, 08:15 PM

At the risk of offending, I am tired of the BS a fish killed by a rec, a commercial or by catch is dead and cannot contribute to the survival of the striped bass. I think we should all bite the bullet and have a moritorun on taking any bass until we can straighten out the problems they are having in the Chesapeake. As much sense as this seems to make I have doubts that it will ever happen. There is just too much money involved. We pushed the bass to the edge of of survival in the eighties and I think it is only a matter of time. Commercials and rec fisherman enjoy the bass while they last. Think it cant happen look at the passenger pigeon, think about the halibut fishery in the atlantic that was destroyed by 1900. I detest the weekend commercial fishermen- those who deplete an endangered public resource to line there pockets. I have some sympathy for full time fishermen. But the good do not always prevail. I just want to be able to look at my children when they ask daddy "Whats a striped bass?" I think some of the participants in this thread (who I prefer not to mention) will regret their greed when the bass go the way of other fisheries that were once prolific and thought to be inexhaustible.

01-15-2010, 08:15 PM	#6
dannyplug1 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: little compton ri 02837 Posts: 339	the good do not always prevail At the risk of offending, I am tired of the BS a fish killed by a rec, a commercial or by catch is dead and cannot contribute to the survival of the striped bass. I think we should all bite the bullet and have a moritorun on taking any bass until we can straighten out the problems they are having in the Chesapeake. As much sense as this seems to make I have doubts that it will ever happen. There is just too much money involved. We pushed the bass to the edge of of survival in the eighties and I think it is only a matter of time. Commercials and rec fisherman enjoy the bass while they last. Think it cant happen look at the passenger pigeon, think about the halibut fishery in the atlantic that was destroyed by 1900. I detest the weekend commercial fishermen- those who deplete an endangered public resource to line there pockets. I have some sympathy for full time fishermen. But the good do not always prevail. I just want to be able to look at my children when they ask daddy "Whats a striped bass?" I think some of the participants in this thread (who I prefer not to mention) will regret their greed when the bass go the way of other fisheries that were once prolific and thought to be inexhaustible.