Striped bass meeting yesterday???

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

Help clarify this for me, please. There are a number of committees within the ASMFC. Which one voted at the meeting in NH, and which will have the final decision? Who ultimately holds the power????
The three striped bass committees are; the Board, the Technical Committee, and the Advisory Panel.


http://www.asmfc.org/about-us/boards-committees-panels



Toby, thank you for your write up, as you are a voice of someone who was there.... (link above)

But why the Chesapeake Bay minimum of 18"?

Th boards or each species are the ultimate decision makers for the species. The tech Committee is staff that does what the board tells them to do and the advisory panel is just that, they advise the board but don't have any decision making authority. The 18" size limit is only in Chesapeake bay and its because they don't have any big females for most of the year. All of the spawning size females migrate out of the bay after spawning.

[beamie]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

The 18" size limit is only in Chesapeake bay and its because they don't have any big females for most of the year. All of the spawning size females migrate out of the bay after spawning.

I get that but.......
They do have big females at least for 2 periods of the year. We don’t have big females on a cold day in December or January up here! We can’t keep schoolers up here in April before the big fish show.
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