Summary
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the 2009 Young-of-the-Year Striped Bass Survey wasn't as good as in years past, but it was still within the expected range. Then why did Stripers Forever say the numbers reflect a deteriorating recreational striper fishery from Maine to North Carolina?
Stripers Forever is an Internet-based conservation organization that believes commercial fish netters do a great deal of harm to the rockfish population. It advocates managing the striped bass strictly as a gamefish by "eliminating all commercial harvest of wild stripers."See the full content of this document
Extract
Results of Striper Survey Are Significant
The Young-of-the-Year surveys have been done by the DNR since 1954 and involve 22 survey sites in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The sites are located in ...
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