How’s it going! I just wanted to make sure the community was aware of an amendment to the striped bass management plan being proposed by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Amendment 7 would change the goalposts used to measure striped bass population and would redefine targets and thresholds for the striped bass population.
for more info:
https://www.trcp.org/2021/03/03/pivotal-decision-point-impacting-striped-bass/
https://www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/StripedBassAm7PID_PublicComment_Feb2021.pdf
Public comment period is open until April 9th.
There is a button to take action in the TRCP link so you can send a message to the commission (a prewritten message is provided)