http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/recr.../snapshot.html


1995 10,869,268
1996 13,638,368
1997 17,448,767
1998 16,571,478
1999 14,152,779
2000 18,924,401
2001 15,554,998
2002 15,638,384
2003 17,354,691
2004 19,997,325
2005 21,316,673
2006 28,610,534
2007 19,105,071
2008 13,982,745


I don't know how to read this stuff, to me it looks like the striped bass numbers are declining. A lot of people say they aren't, or the calculations are off. How do you figure out where the truth lies?