At a particular assembly held at present, the Striped Bass Administration Board voted to not enact stricter striped bass rules for 2025. As a substitute, the Board dedicated to engaged on an Addendum to the Striped Bass Administration Plan that may modify rules, if wanted, for the 2026 season.
Striped bass are at present overfished and underneath a rebuilding plan with a 2029 deadline. The particular assembly was known as in response to an replace that confirmed a lower than 50% likelihood of rebuilding the inventory by 2029.
Public feedback acquired by the ASMFC forward of the assembly have been overwhelmingly in favor of the Board taking motion with new rules for 2025. Feedback in favor of established order argued that present administration measures have been working to rebuild the inventory and taking motion would trigger pointless financial ache.
Representatives from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine voted in favor of a movement that might have required states to cut back striped bass removals by 9% via new rules in 2025. Nonetheless, after over two hours of debate, the movement was defeated.
The subsequent assembly of the Striped Bass Administration Board can be on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Fee’s Winter assembly, held February 4-6, 2025.
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