Everything closed bass pressure

[Angler Paul]

"Do to nothing being open worth fishing for right now except bass, why dont these people who make the regs see while closing some fisheries to bring it back.......they are putting all pressure on one other species so anyone that needs to make money in the industry will now be fishing for bass.....well done and great thinking as usual for the government"

You are 100% correct Joey! That is one of the arguments I use at the New Jersey Marine Fisheries meetings. I favor longer seasons even if the size limits need to be raised to do that. For example sea bass season could have been open for many more days if we had just raised the size limit to
13". There is very little meat on a 12 1/2" sea bass anyhow.
Worse yet is exactly what you stated. I now see boats including charter and party boats that never used to fish for stripers targeting them because other species such as fluke and sea bass are closed. Worse still is the fact that some of these boats are composed of an entireley different clientel, specifially meat fishermen. This in turn is putting far too much pressure on our striper stock.
We need more people like you to become involved by attending meetings or at least writing a letter.

Paul Haertel