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Striper Signals: If you care about fishing along the Atlantic coast for striped bass, be afraid—very afraid

 

It's not just the west coast that has problems with stripers but at least on the east coast there is not a group of water districts, posing as environmentalists trying to wipe out the fishery by suing to remove all the sportfishing regulations regarding them. Ed.

 

by Ted Williams

July  24, 2009 -- THERE IS ABUNDANT EVIDENCE THAT the Atlantic population of striped bass is crashing. But why should you listen to me, when I and virtually all my fellow striper advocates who aren’t fish managers have been saying this for five years? And why should you listen to us when the trained professionals hired to tend the resource promise that everything is fine and dandy and when all we anglers can offer is anecdotal info—the most unreliable of all evidence, “barroom biology” as it has been called?...(Continued in PDF format)