Stripers Forever members - below is the message we are sending to the ASMFC. Check it out then click the link below to view our 2009 survey results.
Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission policy makers – the Stripers Forever 2009 annual fishing survey results are in. This is our 7th consecutive year of polling guides and recreational anglers from SC to ME on their striped bass fishing experiences and preferences for management measures. The survey data comes from a very experienced group of fishermen representing all the major coastal striped bass states. This year’s results are particularly important since we used Survey Monkey software to obtain surveys from a record 906 respondents including 82 guides representing most coastal states. It will not surprise many of you to read that the overwhelming majority of anglers see the striper
fishery as declining significantly. You can view the results at this address on our website.
If the link is not active just highlight it, copy and paste it into your web browser.
There are three attachments,the first being a Survey Totals Excel spreadsheet, which catalogs all the responses. When you open this Survey Totals spreadsheet,you will see a tab at the bottom labelled comments. There were 344 individual comments which provide real insight into what recreational fishermen think about the fishery and how it is being managed. The second attachment is a Word document (Commentary), which summarizes the responses we received to the most important questions., The final attachment (Key Comparisons) provides summary tables and graphs showing how responses have changed over the seven years we've conducted the survey
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Please do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have about this survey or its results. Thank you.
Brad Burns & George Watson
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