Stripers Forever - Harvesting Too Many Large Stripers

At the urging of commercial fishing interests, managers have allowed the harvest of striped bass to grow far too large. Additionally they have focused at least the coastal portion of the harvest on large, breeding age fish. The result has been a wide spread reduction in the quality of the fishery, and a marked decrease in the total biomass of large stripers in the ocean. The effects are very likely far more serious than poor fishing, though that is bad enough. Read the attached article for more important information.