Close SW Ledge

[Headhunter]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

read this http://www.bayjournal.com/article/li...ahead_for_fish and then tell me about the YOY index.

All the more reason to not kill the breeders if less of their eggs are reaching maturity. more eggs more chance of them hatching and surviving. Not rocket science.
Take a look at my name, I dont fish for small fish, its time to sacrifice a little for the sake of the fishery. I want my children and their children to be able to catch a fish that makes your heart pound out of your chest and do it standing on a rock. Lord knows I have killed my share of big fish and I would love to be able to do it again, but I will not do it if there is a chance my children are going to pay for it by not experiencing it with their children if they so desire. It looks like we all are fishing by the same regs anyway and that is a start....................not going to be enough to make a huge difference in a short period of time in my humble opinion

[zimmy]

"Striped bass crashed because of overfishing in the 1980s, which was also a time when the AMO was in a phase unfavorable for their recruitment, so fish being caught were not being replaced. The ensuing rebound of striped bass stocks is often touted as a major fishery management success as managers took dramatic actions, including a coastwide moratorium, to protect the spawning stock. And it was. But Wood's work strongly suggests that managers also got lucky - their fishing moratorium coincided with an AMO shift that greatly improved striped bass spawning conditions. "Had the weather not turned, we would have been waiting longer for that recovery," he said."

This time we may not get so lucky.