News stories about fishing the moratorium

[albiealert]

Interesting. I have never caught a weakfish in the Sound, but I would love to. I can't imagine that fishing being so abundant like they were talking about.

[porgy75]

Wow taking a look back was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing

[DarkSkies]

This is something Roddy sent to me.....

http://www.scottchurchdirect.com/ted...r-recovery-not

Thought some of ya's might like to see, this perspective and thoughts about the moratorium...
Written 12 years ago.....in 2002
Talks about bass fishing in the 70's...
Was the sky falling then?
Or was there some ring of truth in the cautions that were being mentioned?

[buckethead]

^ Rich I think in 2002 it was noticable as well. Just starting to decline.
An article from 1977. 5 years before changes were being made--

FISHING: Striped bass population threatened by extinction?

Montgomery, Monty

Jun 5, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Boston Globe (1872-1982)

pg. 95
http://nycflyfishing.com/1977%20Striped%20Bass%20column.pdf

[hookedonbass]

http://www.si.com/vault/1984/04/23/6...on-the-striper
Something from Sports Illustrated 1984. They blamed it partially on the water quality.

[buckethead]

Here is an interesting piece that says if scientists would have listened to fishermen they could have avoided some of the great fishing downturns throughout history.

IRELAND - The knowledge of fishermen, which could be referenced to help prevent the catastrophic ecological collapses we are seeing in our lakes and oceans, is rarely being valued by fisheries scientists according to a recent review of over 500 scientific publications spanning nearly 100 years.
The study, published this week as Editor’s Choice by the ICES Journal of Marine Science shows that if scientists from Canada to Kiribati had worked more closely with fishermen over the last 100 years they could well have prevented infamous events like crashes in regional cod populations, as well as some of the rapid degradation we are currently seeing in tropical coral reef environments.
- See more at: http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/....2nEMq6kE.dpuf

[storminsteve]

Thanks buckethead. It kind of makes me mad to read something like that. Now we have fishermen saying the same thing about the stripers. The scientists seem to think they know it all. Or they know better than we do. SMH