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Sports - Outdoors
Chesapeake Sportsman: Declining rockfish population cause for concernPublished 11/12/08
Earlier this week an acquaintance sent me a note, lamenting that, unlike in previous weeks, his most recent outing didn’t produce the “big rockfish.” Never mind the fact that in the several spots where he and his friend wet a line they hooked up – it was as if the lack a trophy striper was the only criteria for success. Such disappointment is baffling to me from a sportsman’s perspective.
By Pamela Wood — The Capital
A baby rockfish is held during a survey by the Department of Natural Resources in 2006.
I get a fair number of such emails, and am regularly sent photos of the ‘big ones’. It’s great people are out taking advantage of the great fall fishing in our area waters, when the ocean run stripers...
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