year 2010 recreational catch statistics

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by WoodyCT

Can anyone tell me if the new license system will include a mechanism to collect catch/kill data from all licensed anglers?

Seems to me a mandatory (make participation necessary to be eligible for the following season's license?) weekly online angler survey would go a long way toward gathering real data on effort, catch, and release.
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No the new system is simply designed to make the telephone survey more accurate.

[Sweetwater]

Those of us who cherish the striped bass fishery just need to attack this problem from every angle.

1) support the recovery of forage fish by limiting take on herring (both sea herring and alewife/blueback) and menhaden specifically
2) support catch and release (I take fewer fish now than I ever have)
3) support legislation that puts "reasonable" restrictions on commercial take
4) support clean-up of polluted spawning grounds and put penalties on those who pollute these areas
5) report poaching and other violations
6) support legislation that prevents (and penalizes) the mid-water trawler fleet and others that destroy bass as by-catch
7) encourage others to do #1 thru #6
8) encourage others to encourage others