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Originally Posted by bobber
yes I do know that.... it also allows them to fully exploit their fishery, and I also that enforcement is a joke down there and poaching is rampant. the fishery in the Cheaspeake is possibly the most perilous of all
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Maryland dnr is actually pretty active. We would regularly get checked when I was down there. Way more than up here. The tilghman island boys poach, but they get caught and prosecuted. No fishing midnight to 5 or 6 am. Closed seasons to protect breeding( used to be anyway). In much of the bay, a 32" fish is big. 18" isn't unreasonable. Slot would make sense though. The winter slaughter in VA and NC is/was a problem, but the sorry state of striped bass lays in the bloody hands of rec fisherman from the mason dixon line north as much or more so than anywhere.
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