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Here is what I sent to the MA representatives
Dear Dr Beal,
I am a dedicated recreational striped bass fisherman with 45 years of experience and a correspondingly high level of proficiency. Both from boat and from shore I have witnessed an alarming drop-off in the number of fish I am able to find and catch over the last 4 years. Although I am aware of a remaining population mass of striped bass feeding far off shore, I am deeply concerned by the lack of small fish either inshore or offshore, and the lack of fish of almost any size throughout hundreds of miles of their historic inshore summer range.
Although I am aware that NOAA's population estimates suggest a healthy stock, as a physician I am also aware that many patients die when the data and tests suggest all is fine.
In medicine, and in fishery science, truth is found not in scientific models, but in real world result.
The Striped Bass fishery is sick, please do your best to fix it.
Thank you,
Dr George Christman
Falmouth, MA
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