Chesapeake Stripers - Headed to a full Moratorium?

[Johnsfolly]

More bad news for the stripers in the Chesapeake. Are we looking at another complete moratorium in the Bay/Eastern seaboard like back in the eighties?

https://www.wboc.com/news/more-striped-bass-restrictions-possible-for-chesapeake-bay-fisheries/article_abca55b6-9231-11ef-ab45-97bc3b3c59ef.html

[Quillback]

Do they have a reason for the decline?  Overfishing?  Loss of spawning habitat?  Blue cats?

[Terrierman]

The biologists will figure it out.  Hope the politicians get on board with taking care of a fishery.  Sometimes, just knowing the answer to a question isn't enough.  Other times we humans do OK.

[dpitt]

That's a bummer, had a chance to take a fly fishing trip in Chesapeake  bay,  got caught in a wicked storm on way back to the boat ramp, very Nautical, giant swells.  We where in a 20' skiff, new it was dicey conditions, guide had to work the throttle to handle the swells and following seas. He was cool as a cucumber, kind of like when you check out the body language of a flight crew when things get wonky on a flight.  That is  until we got back the ramp, where he admitted he was a bit worried, we where all soaked   Other than that, very beautiful and fishey place.

 

 

[rps]

Michner wrote a book on the Chesapeake. His introduction were always the most interesting.