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Originally Posted by MakoMike
Care to provide a cite for those "more recent" studies? I haven't been able to find them.
The striped bass stock is NOT managed for MSY, its managed for abundance, check out the ASMFC FMPs and pay particular attention to the reference points. MSY is a substitute for "Optimum Yield" in the MSA and the MSA does NOT apply to he ASMFC.
If mother nature doesn't cooperate, there is almost nothing we can do to recover the stock.
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It has been a few years since I read the literature, so I would have to dig in my piles to get it. The quote below, which comes from the link, has what I have understood for several years to be the current understanding. It isn't that they don't leave, they tend to stay around longer. They still leave and are harvested throughout the range of other bay fish.
https://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/striper.html
"After about 3 years, at the juvenile stage, the females begin to migrate to the ocean where they mature. The males
tend to remain in the estuary longer than the females."
I will read the details of how abundance targets vary from msy. Pretty sure they come from the same nest.
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