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In the book, "Cod" this was discussed. No one really knows whether this will permanently damage the stocks or not, or if younger spawners will actually help the fish comeback quicker... what we do know is that this happened so a few people could make a few bucks. That's not too cool.
Funny thing is that the one guy hit right on a factor that's just as dangerous as overfishing stripers (or any gamefish). "fish are smaller cause they have no food"
If bunker, herring, mackeral, etc. are fished hard to make up for the fact that stripers, tuna, cod, etc. are regulated, what do you suppose will happen? Don't we allow foreign ships to come into our waters and harvest millions of pounds of bunker to be use as f'n fertilizer (reduction fishing?)? That's just plain dumb.
The whole ecosystem needs managed, not just one species at a time... everything we do from fishing to polution can have an effect.
I always say this and its true... I do feel for the commercial fishermen. This is what they do... this is what their fathers and grandfathers passed on to them. Imagine if the gov't came in and said, Greg, you can't fix computers anymore (actually Microsoft is trying to do that to me as I primarily support Macintosh machines), John, you can't manage a network, or Slipknot, you can't use wood anymore, Gots Stripers can no longer sell his product, etc. etc. so on...
That would really suck. But the big picture is that a few people shouldn't be able to decide the fate of any resource for billions of others now and in the future.
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