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Sports - Outdoors
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Published
02/21/10
Members of the federal fisheries board who voted to consider increasing the coastal commercial striped bass harvest had to know they'd just thrown a brick at a hornet's nest. At its winter meeting the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Striped Bass Management Board approved an addendum that could give commercial fishers a larger quota, igniting an impassioned debate. Find Us On Facebook
It's not surprising that commercial fishermen and sport anglers would squabble over allocation. Yet, despite the recent coastal stock assessment that found healthy numbers of stripers, this motion is contentious because it comes at a time when...
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Rockfish proposal - 2010-02-22 06:47:53
I didn't even read your article, but I already know what it's about - Hypocrisy.
There is already a 90/10% split recreational/commercial. The commercial component is held to a strict limit each year, with paybacks in place for overages, which are used. The recreational sector has no hard quota and has grown to 14 times what it was when striped bass were declared restored.
Approximately 34% of all striped bass mortality is affected by recreational discards - released fish that die, which is more than the entire commercial harvest and discards coastwide, all those fish killed, in the name of fun.
How very hypocritical of you to blame any woes of the stocks on commercial fishing.
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