Striped bass numbers are declining. Emergency regulations are being proposed, including a spring trophy fishing season ban in Maryland, to help restore the stocks. Noleff
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Outdoors Bound: Emergency Striped Bass Regulations
About damn time…
Most comments on here are laughable, blame everything on the recreational guy and the commercial guys can do what the hell they want i see videos on YouTube of people in other states taken stringers of rocks but in Maryland your ass is going to jail or your money taken for 3 rocks. Just help me to abolish the recreational fishing licenses permission slips, we all have a god-given right to recreational fish for food fun therapy.
How about all states start to check on Chinese anglers for undersized, oversized and restricted species being carried out on daily basis? When approached by law enforcement magically non of them speaks or understand English 🙈🙉🙊🤷 or carries any form of identification, officers then just let them go because they do not want the hustle and moving onto the one's that are not looking like the Chinese people…
Stop netting the giant schools of bunker that they feed on !!!
yeah come to CT we get 1 fish/ 28-31…stop culling the fish maryland NJ/etc..
wow baziiingaaaas
I live in Maryland and am a former first mate and charter captain.So let the Striped Bass be born in the Chesapeake Bay.So let other Atlantic states continue to harvest them why Maryland closes there trophy striped bass season.Sounds pretty fair LoL.The entire Atlantic States need to be on the same page,but this will never happen .To much politics and economic factors involved.Only way all the states will be on the same page ,is when the resource is depleted and they are forced to.Same thing that happened with the Moratorium in the Early 80's.
Maryland has had the worst striped bass regulations in the country for years. It’s long past due that the Chesapeake fishery was regulated.
This needs to be done! While we’re at it Virginia … shut down Menhaden reduction “fishing” operations (I.e. Omega Protein). They’re reducing the base of the food chain affecting Striped Bass, and larger species up and down the east coast.
Frickin finally some action to save our beloved striped bass.
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Huge Sacrifice? The rest of the country has taken action. Time for the chesapeake bay region to catch up!
“Taken the lead” 😂
Huge sacrifice? It's about time. Trophy season coincides with when they spawn in the spring. Every state but Maryland did what was necessary while Maryland continued to kill the spawners year over year. NY and NJ also have major spawns in their estuaries and they changed regulations years ago. That is when Maryland should have gotten their collective heads out their butts and done something.This is years later than it should have happened. Recruitment has continued to drop since 2015. This should have happened long ago. Slot limits and lower bag limits haven't hurt the industry in New England. People still book charters and frequent tackle shops despite most of the fish out catch and release up here. I hope this passes.