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Originally Posted by SAUERKRAUT
We avocationals/recreationals spend a lot of money doing this. In my mind, I lay the blame of a declining and destroyed striped bass fishery entirely at the feet of the greed and avarice of the commercial fishing industry, its participants, and their bureaucratic allies in State and Federal Fisheries Mismanagement.
Make Striped Bass a Game Fish.
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So you’re dismissing what recs do at the Canal and the Block all summer long? Charters, party boats hammering away at big breeder bass Every. Single. Day. And then you have spearfishermen from around the world taking their pick of 40-50# fish at the Block, again, all summer long. You’re saying that type of pressure on those two biomasses isn’t significant? Excuse me if I fail to see the logic in that.
While I don’t agree with, and downright despise certain types of commercial fishing, I’d say rod and reel is a drop in the bucket compared to rec harvest and most other comm methodologies.
I do agree that it’s been another terrible fall run for big bass, though. Tons of small fish so it’s hard for me to say the fishery is going to tank, but I’m sure we all agree to some extent that the fishing should be much better.
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