Mass Striper decline numbers from NOAA

[CowHunter]

Originally Posted by Chunkah

It's funny that the two guys in this thread that seem to be bitching and complaining the most (at least on the last few pages) about the proposed bills here in MA aren't even from here!

Why doesn't the NJ guy just keep on killing 3 a day along with his clients and V.T. can go fish a lake.....pathetic.

Pathetic: The rich yuppies proposing the bills are from Maine!
And by the way I killed Plenty of bass in mass and am deserving of a break you know..... theres a lack of fish there??????

NJ Bonus tags, AKA Game Fish State, Happy Together!

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

Chunka,i actually spend as much time on the cape as i do in Vt.from may to late oct i am on the cape. i fish just about every night,and 3 to 4 days a week on mt kayak. i work in a tackle shop. hold a comm. license and build plugs i have more to lose than most if the fishery fails.you might want to take a reading compretention course, as i never mention anything against the bills.do i see a decline in the number of fishermen in the last 8 years most definitly,i would think this might have something to do with decreased landings. i i see a decline in the amount of fish caught from the beach,at times yes .i am seeing much bigger concentrations of fish and catching many more fish in an outing than ever before.i hear people talk about an area having no fish yet i never see them fishing that area.in the spring i talk to freinds in delaware,nj,li that are into miles of fish,with no one in sight until the word gets out.getting tried of hearing people moan and groan over their keyboards.if there is a problem it is where the fish spawn and maturelooking forward to another year by myself and a few freinds.

[bucko]

Fish are offshore and concentrated...ok but is there any data (science) that points to the size of the total bass population doing anything but shrinking?

The YOY index is trending down with the exception of 2011. We need to conserve...