2025 Striped Bass Regulations

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by 1captainron

Just curious, why get rid of the Bonus program? What' the benefit?

I depend on that so my customers can at least (hopefully) have a good eating sized fish to take home. Catch and release is going put the rest of us out of business.

Just so everyone else reading here understands it, the benefit we in NJ get with the bonus program is a direct result of our state deciding we didn’t want to allow commercial fishing for Stripers here. In turn that commercial quota gets transferred to the recreational sector. That allows us to keep an extra smaller slot fish unlike the other states who have a commercial fishery.

I’m not saying the extra slot is good or bad just wanted to let people know why we have the extra slot so they can have an informed opinion and discussion.