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The only problem with the sea bass fishery right now is too many large fish and not enough small ones. Size limit needs to be lowered, then the fish will switch from females to male sooner and the population will expand more rapidly. In the late 90s and early 2000s, fish switched to male at 8-9" and there were tons of fish, now with larger size limits, the switch is often over 13." All summer you could catch over 50 fish a day, though many were tiny. Now it is hard to catch very many sea bass outside of the peak seasons and there seems to be relatively few small fish. Sea bass are one of he few fish that benefit from fishing pressure.