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Old 07-24-2019, 04:37 PM
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Ill give my two cents. Back in the 80's while Drum fishing down at the mouth of the Chesapeake, the blues were pests. Trying to keep a bait down long enough for a Drum to suck it in was impossible! Then along came OMEGA PROTEIN and their reduction boats. Year after year you would see less and less Blues. But, Hey, they were only netting menhaden,right! Wrong, those reduction boats sucked up whatever was in the net. Those nets don't know the difference between a blue or a bunker. Stripers also! Omega Protein has just about wiped out everything in the Chesapeake. Those same fish are the ones that migrate North in the spring of the year. Their gone!
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