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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

You think MRIP which is what they use to determine recreational landings is science? We know it’s flawed and so do they and they’ve admitted it overestimated landings by a huge margin https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=di...e=sh/x/gs/m2/5

You're rather missing the point - if the MRIP is overestimating effort and landings, but the stock assessments are sound, then the actual population of bass is smaller than previously thought, not larger.

And also let's keep in mind that the only reason MRIP is undergoing correction is due to better science. Not you or anybody else making claims on the internet - but trained professionals crunching the numbers and doing the work so you can then turn around and misunderstand its implications.