MSBA Action Alert--Stripers Forever Bill Could Pass- Only One Hearing--This Thursday

[trapperpierre]

....... continue the freeze on commercial..........reduce recreational/charter....no argument just reporting...just common sense.........just acknowledge the excesses of the Rec/charter group of anglers.............and back off from hard cap commercials who are a very small percentage of the ASFMC "death pie"of striper mortality.......and the available data indicates a wash of one fish recruited to the population.....one fish is removed as killed, eaten, mounted, or sold.......multiple use is the soul of America's utlization of our natural resources.....a intended resource grab under the guise of gamefish status is reprehesible....with good managment of striped bass is basically in place...........all striped bass user groups should concentrate on the bait issues as they relate to striper dietary needs......and should "pay attention" to various extremist enviro groups totally planning to end fishing as we know it....................everyone should save one's energy for the real battle that will be decending on all who participate with activities(sport, livelyhood) that has a live creature(i.e. fish) in the equation.....the massive funding that is available to the anti's to eliminate activities that include live creatures is frightening..................we all better wake up........all of us before it is to late....

[dannyplug1]

Commercial fishing as we know it is an anacronism. When the whiteman cam to this counry game was abundent and a person could feed there family with wild game. You cant just go out to a state forrest and shoot enough game to feed your family for the winter. Nor can you sell the game you shoot. People used to be able to do this the buffalo hunters feeding the rail road workers, the market hunters on the chesapeake. The vast majority of the food that we eat has been grown or raised. We cant continue to take from the seas at will we are just too good. We have destroyed habitat and the food sources of the bass. Look at the other commercial fisheries the government is buying back licenses look to the future we are depleating the fish in the sea at an alarming rate including the striped bass. This is a scientific issue which has been hijacked by the greed of a few vs the future. A wild Bass is too important to be sold like a pittyfull hatchery raised ten inch rainbow trout. Bass should be taken off the market and the charter industry, and the recreationals should not be allowed to take fish for the near future.