Recently we received a copy of a letter from an eyewitness referring to bycatch of striped bass in an area east of outer Cape Cod. You can read the letter by clicking on the attachment above . This bycatch, whether by mid-water herring trawlers or groundfish draggers, is well known to be an annual occurrence during the peak of the fall migration. This kind of waste, combined with the bloated take of the legal and black market commercial striped bass fisheries, certainly contribute to the numerous reports we've received this season about poor striper fishing from
many areas along the Atlantic coast.
