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Anybody who killed a large bass in the canal this past year has nothing to complain about. Md is just doing the same as we have been.
The ASMFC has seen the numbers of large fish dropping steadily but has avoided and delayed action to allow continued recreational and commercial harvest of the remaining fish because the large 2011 year class will eventually salvage the situation. Such action has made the slaughter we see at the canal or at Chatham legal and popular.
The 2011 year class is now reaching harvest age for the Chesapeake. This is the size fish they fish for since the larger fish migrate out of there. They want access to those fish just the same as we will want access to the same fish when they are larger.
Killing large bass last year and complaining about MD killing small bass next year under the same legal guidelines has no credibility. They, I'd suspect, are equally disgusted with what we do when the fish get here.
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