Very nice piece from SJ Blog on Striped bass and ASMFC

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Originally Posted by MakoMike

Self-serving? How so, I rarely fish for striped bass.

That explains why you are content believing the ASMFC is managing them well.

Originally Posted by MakoMike

I guess you are unaware that in most fisheries management its the scientists that set the ABCs and the "managers" really just try to figure out how to stay within those numbers.

You're about 20 years behind the times in your attitudes and thinking.

I have not seen any change in fishery management, other than that mandated by a judge, over the more than 20 years I have been concerned about it. I have seen continued depletion of most of the stocks of fish I would like to catch and I blame apologists like yourself for facilitating such mismanagement.

You also seem unaware that science is useless with bad data, and that science is subservient to real world data not the other way around. To pretend that fishery management is based on science is ridiculous. It is based on data collection that makes use of science to predict the outcomes using that data set.

When you have bad data, you have bad results. There has been an abundance of real world information indicating that the striped bass data being used to predict management outcomes has been bad for the last 10 years. The ASMFC has chosen not to believe it for political and economic reasons......not "scientific" ones.

We just see things differently. Your perspective is that the fact that the striped bass SSB has not totally collapsed is proof the management has been OK. The fact that striped bass recreational catch is far below what the main user group wants does not matter. The ASMFC has done their job and killed every last "extra" fish out there. Now if they would just do the same for BSB everything would be grand.

To each their own, but why so many gloating posts from you about it on a board dedicated to striped bass fishing if you don't fish for bass anymore?