Recreational Bass Catch

[DZ]

I’ve always speculated that having ARC bait remove the massive menhaden schools from the cozy confines of Narragansett Bay is more than likely very beneficial to the striped bass population. Menhaden make bass easy targets. To me if you’re going to have a Menhaden Management Area where the take of menhaden is restricted then no one including recreational fishermen should be permitted to use and/or take menhaden in that area.

[nightfighter]

• In Massachusetts in 2014, 74% of total Striped Bass caught were caught by recreational fisherman (70% of total Blue fish were caught by recreational fisherman
• In Massachusetts there was an estimated 2,041,244 individual striped bass caught in 2014 by recreational fisherman (I believe he said there was a +/- 9% margin of error either way so the range is 1.8M-2.4M)
• In all the New England states combined (including Massachusetts) there were an estimated 3,072,705 individual striped bass caught in 2014 by recreational fisherman


I call BS on ALL the above numbers, percentages, and margins of error. Those are guesses, as good as yours or mine.