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Title: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: surfrocket on October 16, 2008, 09:56:56 PM

click on the linc's that are highlighted for the video and story.

Stripers Forever members - Recently we received a copy of a letter from an eyewitness referring to discarded by catch of striped bass in an area east of outer Cape Cod. You can read the letter by clicking on this link. This by catch, whether by mid-water herring trawlers or groundfish draggers, is well known to be an annual occurrence during the peak of the fall migration. This kind of waste, combined with the bloated take of the legal and black market commercial striped bass fisheries, certainly contribute to the numerous reports we've received this season about poor striper fishing from many areas along the Atlantic coast.
These dead fish should certainly be counted towards commercial striped bass quotas, but they are not. In fact, we think that they are uncounted not only for quotas but also when calculating the overall fishing moralities that fishery managers use in setting harvest levels. The bottom line is that this is just another important reason that there should be noStripers Forever members - Our last bulletin about the dead stripers off Cape Cod brought us an e-mail with this linc to a video that corroborates the letter even down to the date, October 6. Be prepared to become sick. This should be next year’s MA commercial striper quota!
 commercial striped bass fishery

Title: Re: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: surfrocket on October 16, 2008, 09:59:29 PM

the links didnt post. i will email rod the message mabey he can add the links.

Title: Re: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Hotrod on October 16, 2008, 10:05:14 PM

http://njsaltwaterfisherman.com/forums/index.php?topic=9134.0;topicseen

Got it here Ken..   t^

Title: Re: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: CapBob on October 16, 2008, 11:05:54 PM

Crying Shame.........some ones *ss should hang for that

Title: Re: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ped579 on October 16, 2008, 11:16:55 PM

This is what I was talking about earlier in another post.  What is it going to take to stop this exploitation of the commercial fishing fleet.  Why are we always at fault?

Title: Re: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: surfrocket on October 16, 2008, 11:38:30 PM

something really needs to be done about this. i get sick when i see this stuff. wtf its just heartless. i am so pissed

Title: Re: 3 miles of dead stripers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Reckless on October 17, 2008, 03:01:59 AM

So who is responsible for letting this go on?  5hrug
 Cant a petition be started to put a stop to this?