Herring have arrived

[buckman]

Originally Posted by hq2

The previous post may be a little extreme, but it does seem that in recent years the fisheries folks have gotten the issues backwards.
Herring have come back strong, and stripers appear to be in trouble
again. We need to fix both; namely, something like allowing maybe
5-10 herring a day to be dipped for bait (as opposed to the pre moratorium 25), while reducing the striper limit to one a day per person. That might get it about right.

What do you need all that bait for if you can't keep the stripers ?
IMO bait fishing mortality is high
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[chefchris401]

the ones ive been seeing in RI, are some of the biggest herring ive seen in the last few years. runs were packed today.