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Originally Posted by NoLimit
Lots of koolaid here but wish as much as you want, recreational fishing has no significant effect on marine stocks.
Everyone's crying about the couple of thousand fish kept for the pan but I bet you never seen the mountains of stripers that they used to net in the Chesepeake for fertilizer production. Nets are what kills stocks.
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Agreed some what that rec guys wont kill the stock but you have to admit 10+ boats per day, per marina, per state catching fish every day plus the private boats, kayaks, and surf fisherman are not helping the matter killing the spring breeders.
It has to hurt somewhat when you cut open a fat mature female that is holding thousands of eggs.
Yea netters do the damage but we need to do our part as well to help.
Most here may not remember the striper moratorium back in the 80s when of you even caught a striper let alone a keeper size were prety lucky.
Its going to happen again, mabey not now but most of our grand kids will only see a striper if they see the pics of us holding em.
