Dismal MS surf club tournament results

[afterhours]

Won't be long until the BI fish are gone...Methinks most end up being sold illegally on the black market or otherwise ( out of state comm anglers ). Don't think for a second that they all are consumed by the anglers who caught them. Coastwide gamefish status now!

[piemma]

Originally Posted by afterhours

Won't be long until the BI fish are gone...Methinks most end up being sold illegally on the black market or otherwise ( out of state comm anglers ). Don't think for a second that they all are consumed by the anglers who caught them. Coastwide gamefish status now!

EXACTLY but no one is listening. I have been preaching Gamefish status for 10 years. No one want to hear it. Every time I put it up here, on FB, write an article that gets published, I talk about FL and what they did with Tarpon and Snook. The typical response is "but there are no tarpon or Snook in VA, or MD, or DE". Well, so what???

If we gave the Stripers Game Fish Status all the Eastern Seaboard would benefit from a world class fishery in 5 or 10 years.

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by afterhours

Won't be long until the BI fish are gone...

Coastwide gamefish status now!

Yup, that may be one of the few (or the last) strain of SB left.

Lousy results for a tourney of full of dedicated, knowledgeable fisherman at a prime time.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Yup, that may be one of the few (or the last) strain of SB left.

Lousy results for a tourney of full of dedicated, knowledgeable fisherman at a prime time.

why is BI still healthy do you think, plenty of people fishing out there?
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[Linesider82]

Originally Posted by afterhours

Won't be long until the BI fish are gone...Methinks most end up being sold illegally on the black market or otherwise ( out of state comm anglers ). Don't think for a second that they all are consumed by the anglers who caught them. Coastwide gamefish status now!

That is happening. Im pretty sure state fisheries understand this issue and nothing is being done. The lack of fish in the quota in Ma is also being caught in RI. Easy steam and big payoff.
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[Back Beach]

If people would just start eating more pork the striper population would take care of itself. Duh.