Ostensibly, the title of Maryland’s State Fish was bestowed upon the striped bass due to its long-term popularity with Chesapeake Bay watermen. But its status may as well be because it has garnered more policy attention than any other scaly, ectothermic creature in the Old Line State.
One of the state’s biggest policy decisions this year will likely come not from the legislature, but from within the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, which is “right in the middle of making some drastic changes to this fishery,” according to Mike Luisi of the DNR’s fisheries service.
“We’ve been working with the industry for quite some time about the 2014 fishery,” Luisi said. “There are some tough decisions that will have to be made.”
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Drastic changes are needed, up and down the coast.
ReplyDeleteafter seeing what the commercial guys did last year in the lower bay any change is welcome. I would like my grand children to be able to catch on some day. Right now the commercial guys are raping the bay and the seas and we the recreational fishermen and women get sh$t!
ReplyDeleteThey need to up the catch for everybody. Not enough food in the bay for the population of stripers we have now.
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