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Everybody wants to point fingers and say how dumb the scientists are and how stupid the latest conservation effort is while simultaneously complaining about how bad the fishing is( weird right?). Mass needs to go to 1 at 36" in my opinion. I like gamefish status but I think it's too hard to acheive. 1 at 36" could be done. We also really need to get on MD and VA. The 18" limit is ridiculous. It's in place because there are so few big fish there in the summer and people want to keep something. The catch and release season needs to be extended a lot longer I think also. The third saturday is April is way too soon as there are too many females that haven't spawned yet. These are easy things to fix. Change the dates and limits in the Chesapeake and change the limits in MA, these are the biggest striper areas and working towards changing limits and seasons there would really help. So many of the things we bicker about up here in New England I really feel are inconsequential. Seals may hurt the local fishery by eating bait but they've shown that seal really don't target fish over two pounds so they're a concern to stripers. They're also a marine mammal so we're never going to be able to touch them.
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