TWO BASS FOR RI CHARTER AND PARTY BOATS?

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Thanks to New Jersey other states now have an opening:

On Thursday, the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council approved an option for a two-fish limit for the 2015 striped bass season. The approved option allows for one fish between 28 to 43 inches and another fish at 43 inches and above. The size and bag limit must now meet with legislative approval.
The Council was considering the nine original options contained in the Draft Addendum IV, which calls for a 25 percent reduction in the recreational harvest of striped bass, plus two other options of one fish between 29 from to 36 inches with another over 36 inches; and one bass from 28 to 42 inches with another over 42 inches.
However, based on a recommendation from the ASMFC Technical Committee, the Council elected to go up one inch. The approved option provides for a 25.1 percent reduction.
Russ Allen, a fisheries biologist with the New Jersey Bureau of Marine Fisheries who helped develop the options, said a bill containing the measure should be ready to go in about a week.

Bass fishermen have been divided on the issue of the reduction with some in favor of protecting the stock with a one-fish limit at 28 inches. Charter and party boat captains, however, feared that a one-fish limit would hurt an already suffering business.