Some good news on Striped Bass

[Nebe]

high discrard rate accounts for the fact that they really dont know how many fish are taken by anyone. No one asked me how many fish I took last year..I could go into it more but i dont want bottles and tomatoes thrown at me

[Swimmer]

In the last ten years I believe that there has been only one fish I released that I know didn't make it, about 24"s. I'd like to know upon what facts thier actuaries come up with those end results. Unless it is all commercial bycatch infomation they are basing those figures on, did I miss that?