Black Market Stripers?

[Nebe]

Problem with making bass a game fish (which I am 100% for) is that there are farm raised striped bass. This causes a problem because bass will always be available for purchase and I doubt gamefish status will shut down farmed bass.
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[piemma]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Problem with making bass a game fish (which I am 100% for) is that there are farm raised striped bass. This causes a problem because bass will always be available for purchase and I doubt gamefish status will shut down farmed bass.
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Valid point Eben. I'm not smart enough to know the answer to fixing that problem. Maybe farm raised have to be tagged or something. All I know is I KNOW guys who "back door" bass all season long. Size means nothing. Number of fish means nothing. They make a damn good living doing this and have their "buyers" lined up before the bass are here.

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

the bottom line is that you can't change human nature.the hardcore poachers will find a way to sell fish no matter what.will gamefish status stop people taking undersized fish i doubt it will it stop recs from taking more than their limit i doubt it.the only way to stop law breakers is to enforce the laws to the fullest extent with big penalties.if you lose your boat for poaching,i am sure some would think twice,if you lose your vehicle selling thru the back down you would think twice.if states had enforcement like Fla MP there would be a lot less of this going on.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Problem with making bass a game fish (which I am 100% for) is that there are farm raised striped bass. This causes a problem because bass will always be available for purchase and I doubt gamefish status will shut down farmed bass.
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If I remember correctly (which I probably don't), farm raised SB are required to be tagged as such.