2025 MD Striped Bass Young of Year Assessment - Make that 7 consecutive spawn failures!!

[Roccus7]

A picture is worth one thousand words!!!

 

[hawk375]

Need to find problem or go back to striped bass act of 1984 b) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department ofCommerce, $200,000 for each of fiscal years 1986 and 1987, and theamount that is appropriated under this authority for each such yearshall be apportioned equally by the Secretary between the States ofMaryland and Virginia for use by each of them for the propagation,in existing hatchery facilities of that State, of striped bass for thereplenishment of the Chesapeake Bay stock: (1) if that State, foreach such fiscal year, expends an equal amount of State moneys forthe propagation of such stock in its hatchery facilities; and (2) if theSecretary considers that that State is in full compliance with thePla sta Right out of law standing by doing nothing only shows how incompetent the ASMFC has been

 

[Roccus7]

VA YOY a hair better, in that they're making the claim that it's good news, being a "normal year". Got to love how people look at statistics, NOT. True, the margin of error of this year's data's just ticks into the 95% confidence level of the 1967-2025 Mean, but I wouldn't be bragging about that.

If one of my colleagues at work would present and boast with results like this, he be introduced to a new series of holes so he had to pick the corresponding one to take his morning dump!!

 

[OVERBORED]

Chesapeake Bay 2025 Young-of-Year Striped Bass Survey Results Chesapeake Bay 2025 Young-of-Year Striped Bass Survey Results

 

[Roccus7]

Well I sent a letter to Megan Ware, the Chair of the ASFMC Striped Bass Management Board who happens to be from Maine.

To the ASMFC Striped Bass Management Board:

Congratulations!! ASMFC Striped Bass Management Board's historical standard operating procedure of "Kicking the Can Down the Road" has sentenced the Atlantic Striped Bass Fishery to failure! Look at yourselves, taking over 2 years to wrangle the Addendum III is tragic and unconscionable. With the 7th consecutive spawning failure just reported by MD, whatever you finally decide on for Addendum III will be the equivalent of using a squirt gun to put out a forest fire. An immediate, strongly conservative Addendum III may have been relevant 2 years ago; it's nothing more than a moot point at this juncture. The Management's Board handling of Addendum III is a classic example of too little, too late. I hope you're all congratulating yourselves in making sure that you tried to appease your special interest groups while ignoring your key responsibility, the Atlantic Striped Bass.

One would hope that you will marshal your efforts on actually trying to find out what has caused the continued spawning failures, the ROOT CAUSE of the impending doom of this noble fish, something that has been insured by the Board's love of delay. We've all heard hypotheses for the failures, but have yet to see any data from concerted studies. Time to actually do something instead of sending it out to committees, a well-designed and funded study beginning in April, 2026 that monitors all items critical to striped bass reproduction and maturation of eggs during their first 6 months in the Chesapeake. This positive action would demonstrate to the thousands of striped bass lovers and striped bass-related business that the ASMFC Striped Bass Management Board actually cares about this critical, historic resource.

Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX X XXXXX, PhD
Pemaquid, Maine

 

[hawk375]

They were supposed to do it from 1979 than congress gave it to them in 1984 the problem is they are mathematician not biologist the problem has been stated from the beginning with there formula garbage in leads to garbage out now it is time to throw garbage out and get rid of asmfc and let noaa take over