ASMFC Striped Bass Draft Addendum III - Plain English Summary

We can go back and see Giant bluefin in dumpsters. Weakfish, bluefish sitting in garbage cans at the dock after a night trip, rotting, because customers left them. All the result of gluttonous recreational fishermen!

And on and on.........

Need to move forward and coexist. One side is not going to give in to the other.
 
You mean like discard from a net? Area was huge!

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OVERBORED said:
We can go back and see Giant bluefin in dumpsters. Weakfish, bluefish sitting in garbage cans at the dock after a night trip, rotting, because customers left them. All the result of gluttonous recreational fishermen!

And on and on.........

Need to move forward and coexist. One side is not going to give in to the other.
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I am not sure I would compare 10 thousand pounds of dead bass rotting on a beach with a rec who kept more fish than he should have. Recs have been educated and we do not need to kill bass, unlike the commercial side. And trust me I am in no way suggesting that commercial fishermen are responsible for what is happening today, because they clearly are not.

I do not view this as us against them. The fact is we are both in this together.
 
i believe the asmfc should look at 1984 striped bass act where hatcheries were used and also introduce fish throughout range to try and give fish a chance remember if managers cause divide between rec and commercial no one is looking at the horrible job they have done where are the flounder ,cinderworms,jellyfish and now small bass.Why are bait stores, charter boats and commercial fisherman being held responsible for there mistakes with no scientific actions taken
 
george said:
I am not sure I would compare 10 thousand pounds of dead bass rotting on a beach with a rec who kept more fish than he should have. Recs have been educated and we do not need to kill bass, unlike the commercial side. And trust me I am in no way suggesting that commercial fishermen are responsible for what is happening today, because they clearly are not.

I do not view this as us against them. The fact is we are both in this together.
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It doesn't compare but recs have had their own abuses. I think both sides are more aware of waste and try to limit it.
 
Hawk my friend, you’re right about the hatcheries. When all was said and done they figured the introduced bass made up about five percent of the biomass. Not many people even realize that it worked.


We’re on the same page about management dropping the ball. For a politician, nothing is easier than kicking a problem down the road. Isn’t that what they do? And there’s nothing easier to ignore than something under the sea. That’s a recipe for disaster. We put all this time and effort into gathering data, have the scientists build a plan, and then watch it get tossed aside or twisted to fit a political agenda. The science gets ignored until their backs are against the wall. That’s exactly where we are today.
 
I’ve been running the numbers and it’s plain the board doesn’t have the guts to get this done. They set the rules to hit the target, and here’s how they just reacted:

The Board stripped out the 60% probability options in the August 2025 Atlantic Striped Bass Draft Addendum III from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.

They also pulled the ocean size limit options out of the same addendum.

Now the whole focus is on a 12% reduction that only gives a 50% shot at rebuilding.

Think about that. They are settling for a coin flip. A 50/50 chance that we avoid a shutdown in two years. They couldn’t even fight for a 60% chance. Is this really the best they can do for the number one targeted fish on the East Coast?

To me, it looks like they are setting this up so they can miss the target, let the feds shut it down, so our politicians can wash their hands of it.
 
I just wish they would stop using that 50% number which was validated in court when one group called them out on their 50%itis and a judge said that was OK. Based on that the states that refuse to take any bold steps will always cling to the 50% plan since it's usually the least onerous.

Even if they 12% reduction works, and they hit the target in 2029, it will only be a few short years more before the dearth of young fish will rear it's ugly head and force more severe cutbacks.
 

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