If they make the Striped Bass limit one will you still go?

[RussA]

Originally Posted by rumster

So I guess when you run across 100`s of bass floating dead in the ocean, which are the result of being the by catch from the commercial bunker boats that has nothing at all to do with with the down turn. There are many reasons for the decline and angler greed is just one of them.
How does anyone state something as pure fact, when they don`t even know that there was a slot fish???

It's simple, I am from NY and the slot limit was only for a short time. To nitpick is folly.

Your state allows Omega Protein to harvest bunker, NY doesn't.

The above are facts, the only thing that was corrected was there was a slot limit and I said wow I didn't realize.

You can blame the bunker boats all you want but the facts are the for hire boats are doing the most damage. This is a fact. Show me where you have seen 100's of dead stripers from bunker boats in NY Harbor or the Raritan bay, you can't because you are talking about other states.

There are 2 main spawning areas, The Chesapeake and the Hudson. The delaware bay may have some fish but the two areas I just named are the primary areas we catch our bass from.

From March through December for hire boats from NC to MA wreak havoc on both stocks of fish. They are even caught in the eeze illegally.

These are facts you can not dispute. In the 70's and 80's it was commercial, in the 2000's its the for hire boats and private boats.

Sure you can say but I saw a picture of dead stripers and so on, do you know how much bunker I saw with nothing on them all summer long while fluking? an ungodly number. So the bunker boats are doing their own damage to the bunker and I for one want them gone, but this is for another thread.

In order to fix the problems Private and for hire boats need to start policing themselves. I for one am sick of getting dictated to what I can catch and how many I can keep and when I can catch them... How about you?