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Originally Posted by StriperChef
Bigger fluke are definitely not worth more money. Plate sized filets are primo take for commercial guys. To big of fish means you have to cut down filets to make proper portion sizes and odd looking cuts. As for commercial damage in the striper fishery, you are correct there is zero in new Jersey but the same cannot be said for most other states!
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Bigger fluke are worth more money, that's why they high grade. The whole thing is well documented, and the push for 14" min was a response to that behavior.
NJ's striped bass comm quota goes to the bonus tag program, which apparently hasn't been fully utilized. You'll see this as part of the "conservation equivalency" calculus for the new regs, I guarantee it.
Coast wide the commercial take is something like 3-5% of the total harvest, AND many of those quotas haven't been met in recent years. But of course, the bass are all offshore migrating through the canyons
