Stripers Forever

ASMFC 2024 Annual Meeting Summary & Action Alert Winners

Last Wednesday, October 23, 2024 the Striped Bass Management Board met durning the ASMFC 2024 Annual Meeting. It was a six-hour meeting and we came away with mixed feelings. There are clearly some board members who refuse to admit (publicly) that wild Atlantic striped bass are on the brink of another collapse. Rather than accept […]
Six Straight Years of Failed Striped Bass Spawning

Maryland and Virginia reported their 2024 juvenile young of year indexes for striped bass. There’s no other way to put it: failure. That’s six straight years of dismal reproduction in the most important nursery for wild Atlantic striped bass. And that should have alarm bells ringing at the ASMFC. Female striped bass reach sexual maturity […]
ACTION ALERT – ASMFC 2024 Annual Meeting (Wednesday, October 23, 2024 1:30-5PM EST)

In 2022 the ASMFC adopted a new ten-year striped bass management plan, Stripers Forever was the lone voice calling for bold action beyond the scope of the available options. We called for a ten-year harvest moratorium. At the time we said: “We are 18 years into a 10-year management plan that has utterly failed […]

ASMFC 2024 Annual Meeting Summary & Action Alert Winners