Stripers Forever members - here are a couple of interesting news items from the game fish for striped bass battlefront.
· Here is a link http://www.mvtimes.com/2008/08/14/news/gone-fishin.php to a recent story in the Martha’s Vineyard Times about how slowly the MA commercial striped bass quota is coming in this year. Note the unbelievable logic by the
commercial spokesman as he describes how yo-yoing is better than chunk fishing because of all the chunked fish that are killed while looking for a keeper. In response to the article, Captain Fred Jennings, the Massachusetts state chairman for SF wrote aletter to the editor that you can find attached at this page on our website http://www.stripersforever.org/Info/Stripers_BBoard/I0107CCA7. We are not at all surprised that the commercial catch is slow in view of the mediocre to downright poor reports that we get from up and down the coast.
· Part of SF’s platform is that aquaculture can supply the general public with striped bass far better than can the commercial fishery. You’ll hear the commercial advocates cry about how much better wild stripers are to eat than the farm raised fish, but just how true is that? Recently a significant cooking competition among gourmet chefs – funded by the National Marine Fishery Service - was won by Chef Paul Anders entering a dish created from Colorado farm-raised stripers. Here is the link to a brief report on the
competition in Louisiana and the recipe. http://www.stripersforever.org/Info/Stripers_BBoard/I0107CB29.
